"Mobile Nurse" platform for ubiquitous medicine.
OBJECTIVE
We introduce "Mobile Nurse" (MN) - an emerging platform for the practice of ubiquitous medicine.


METHODS
By implementing in a dynamic setting of daily life the patient care traditionally provided by the clinical nurses on duty, MN aims at integral data collection and shortening the response time to the patient. MN is also capable of intelligent interaction with the patient and is able to learn from the patient's behavior and disease sign evaluation for improved personalized treatment.


RESULTS
In this paper, we outline the most essential concepts around the hardware, software and methodological designs of MN. We provide an example of the implementation, and elaborate on the possible future impact on medical practice and biomedical science research.


CONCLUSIONS
The main innovation of MN, setting it apart from current tele-medicine systems, is the ability to integrate the patient's signs and symptoms on site, providing medical professionals with powerful tools to elucidate disease mechanisms, to make proper diagnoses and to prescribe treatment.
Struzik
Z R
ZR
Educational Physiology Laboratory, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. Zbigniew.Struzik@p.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Yoshiuchi
K
K
Sone
M
M
Ishikawa
T
T
Kikuchi
H
H
Kumano
H
H
Watsuji
T
T
Natelson
B H
BH
Yamamoto
Y
Y
D003199:Computer Systems; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D006801:Humans; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*