title: TIDE: an intelligent home-based healthcare information & diagnostic environment.
abstract: The 21st century promises to usher in an era of Internet based healthcare services--Tele-Healthcare. Such services augur well with the on-going paradigm shift in healthcare delivery patterns, i.e. patient centred services as opposed to provider centred services and wellness maintenance as opposed to illness management. This paper presents a Tele-Healthcare info-structure TIDE--an 'intelligent' wellness-oriented healthcare delivery environment. TIDE incorporates two WWW-based healthcare systems: (1) AIMS (Automated Health Monitoring System) for wellness maintenance and (2) IDEAS (Illness Diagnostic & Advisory System) for illness management. Our proposal comes from an attempt to rethink the sources of possible leverage in improving healthcare; vis-à-vis the provision of a continuum of personalised home-based healthcare services that emphasise the role of the individual in self health maintenance.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Research Group, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Abidi
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D006293:Health Promotion; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems; D020407:Internet; D008296:Malaysia; D019114:Remote Consultation; D012984:Software; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted