An easy to use and affordable home-based personal eHealth system for chronic disease management based on free open source software.
This paper describes an easy to use home-based eHealth system for chronic disease management. We present the design and implementation of a prototype for home based education, exercises, treatment and following-up, with the TV and a remote control as user interface. We also briefly describe field trials of the system for patients with COPD and diabetes, and their experience with the technology.
Burkow
Tatjana M
TM
Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine, UNN, Tromsø, Norway. tatjana.m.burkow@telemed.no
Vognild
Lars K
LK
Krogstad
Trine
T
Borch
Njål
N
Ostengen
Geir
G
Bratvold
Astrid
A
Risberg
Marijke Jongsma
MJ
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