title: Health "Smart" home: information technology for patients at home.
abstract: This article reviews the emerging concept of health "Smart" homes (HSH) and its potential through the use of telemedical information systems and communication technologies. HSH systems provide health care services for people with special needs who wish to remain independent and living in their own home. The large diversity of needs in a home-based patient population requires complex technology. Meeting these needs technically requires the use of a distributed approach and the combination of many hardware and software techniques. We also describe the wide scope of new information, communication, and data-acquisition technologies used in home health care. We offer an introduction to the HSH concept in terms of technical, economic, and human requirements. Examples of HSH projects are presented, including a short description of our own smart home and telehealthcare information system project.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory TIMC-IMAG UMR CNRS 5525, Grenoble, France. Vincent.Rialle@imag.fr
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rialle
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Duchene
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Noury
authors.forename: Lionel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bajolle
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Demongeot
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D016330:Frail Elderly; D005602:France; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018577:Homebound Persons; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation