Care at the bedside or anywhere else where the patient might be, or where the caregiver makes the decisions.
Published in Chapter:
Wireless Sensor Network to Support Home Care in Telemedicine Applications
Silvia Jiménez-Fernández (Grupo de Bioingeniería y Telemedicina, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Antonio Cobo-Sánchez-de-Rojas (Grupo de Bioingeniería y Telemedicina, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Álvaro Araujo-Pinto (Laboratorio de Sistemas Integrados, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Pedro Malagón (Laboratorio de Sistemas Integrados, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Octavio Nieto-Taladriz (Laboratorio de Sistemas Integrados, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Paula de Toledo (Grupo de Bioingeniería y Telemedicina, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), and Francisco del Pozo (Grupo de Bioingeniería y Telemedicina, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 5
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch176
Abstract
The care of patients suffering from chronic diseases is a growing source of expense for health care services around the world. The implementation of new models for patients’ treatment and follow-up needs to be faced in order to increase patients’ quality of life, and to reduce the costs associated. In this article, we propose a point-of-care for home care scenarios that is based on the remote monitoring of biomedical parameters.