title: Health informatics for low-cost and high-quality health care.
abstract: P-Health, a future health model that can be described as a 6-P's paradigm, aims to provide low cost and high quality health care via redesigning care practice and networking information systems at different levels. To realise p-Health, a multi-level health information system has to be developed for the processing, storage, transmission, acquisition and retrieval (P-STAR) of health information that spans multiple temporal and spatial scales and consists of multi-modality. This paper uses wearable devices, which have to be miniaturised, integrated, networked, digitalised, smart and standardised (MINDSS), as examples to illustrate how two or more P-STAR technologies are integrated together to implement a specific health care application under p-Health. In particular, standardisation of MINDSS devices that required a new measurement principle, such as the calibration procedure of cuff-less blood pressure measurement devices, is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. cpoon@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
authors.forename: Carmen C Y
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Poon
authors.forename: Wenbo
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Y T
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D006723:Hong Kong; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*