title: A configurable home care platform for monitoring patients with reminder messaging and compliance tracking services.
abstract: This paper illustrates a platform based on a general architecture for implementing home care services for chronic patients composed of a Remote Care Unit located at a patient's home and a Health Care Center Unit located at the treating center. The Remote Care Unit may be deployed on multiple platforms including PCs, mobile phones and even embedded devices not equipped with monitor, and may be configured to support many interoperability issues occurring among the parties involved in a health care delivery process. The platform may be tailored to match the specific issues of any chronic disease supporting either data acquisition as well as customized reminders and notifications from the center. Remote Care Unit platforms are also able to exploit multiple channels for acquiring data, including wireless links with medical devices, speech interaction and graphical user interaction. In this paper a couple of applications addressing the needs of diabetic and nephropatic patients developed on top of that platform are also introduced.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Italy. davide.capozzi@unipv.it
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Capozzi
authors.forename: Giordano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lanzola
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007558:Italy; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D017010:Reminder Systems; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface