title: SERVANDO: an extensible platform for home-care services providing.
abstract: This paper presents an extensible distributed platform that aims to speed up the development of personalized telemedicine systems, dealing with a series of recurrent problems in this kind of system, particularly: (1) functionality encapsulation and reuse in a set of services; (2) communications between the patient's home and the hospital, through a flexible scheme for bidirectional message exchange; and (3) the interaction between patients and the system. Home supervision is carried out through last generation smartphones. To date, the platform has been used for the follow-up of patients with COPD and cardiovascular diseases.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información, 15782, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. tomas.teijeiro@usc.es
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Teijeiro
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Félix
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Presedo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gándara
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014584:User-Computer Interface