title: Tele-assistance for discharged patients supporting continuity of care.
abstract: The paper describes a tele-assistance / tele-monitoring system that assist discharged patients at their home. The system consists of units located at the homes of the monitored persons collecting and sending medical and environmental data from sensors and a call centre with a server for recording and monitoring the data. Here, specialized staff will support tele-surveillance and tele-assistance services. The algorithm that describes the alarm processing related to the threshold conditions of the values read from the sensors is presented as one important part of the system functionalities. During the project an important activity was related to the integration of the devices used in the monitoring process. There were different devices and equipments from different companies and the integration was almost impossible. The solution was to create complex software that can make the things work together.
authors.affiliation: Politehnica University/Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Timişoara, Romania. lacramioara.stoicu-tivadar@aut.upt.ro
authors.forename: Lăcrămioara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stoicu-Tivadar
authors.forename: Vasile
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stoicu-Tivadar
authors.forename: Dorin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Berian
mesh_terms: D056902:Clinical Alarms; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010351:Patient Discharge; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*