Health-enabling technologies for pervasive health care: on services and ICT architecture paradigms

Haux, Reinhold; Howe, Jürgen; Marschollek, Michael; Plischke, Maik; Wolf, Klaus-Hendrik

doi:10.1080/17538150802127140

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“…Technologies for life-style management often consist of so-called health-enabling technologies that are information and communication technologies for creating sustainable conditions for self-sufficient and self-determined lifestyles [49]. Based on sensor-technology, they can, for example, be used to measure physical activity and in combination with computer-based dietary strategies and training programs be used for overweight and obesity prevention [50].…”

Section: Emerging Technologies and Their Context Of Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy ageing supported by technology – a cross-disciplinary research challenge

Koch

2010

Informatics for Health and Social Care

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During the last decade, the challenges of an ageing society became focus for extensive scientific, public and political discussions. From discussions in scientific fora within each discipline, there is now a shift towards cross-disciplinary scientific approaches. The aim of this article is therefore, to collect and describe different scientific viewpoints in this regard and to point out research gaps to be addressed in the future. The article is based on a number of review articles and keynote lectures given by the author, and complemented with informal interviews of experts from different scientific fields engaged in the field of technology and ageing. Results show that research has emerged from being technology-focussed to scenario-based taking different scientific perspectives into account. However, the biggest challenge still is to accommodate the need for a holistic integrated service which means to provide personalised services and adapt technology and content to individual needs of different stakeholders. Further, cross-disciplinary research is needed that relates informatics and technology to different stages of the aging process and that evaluates the effects of proposed technical solutions.

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Section: Emerging Technologies and Their Context Of Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy ageing supported by technology – a cross-disciplinary research challenge

Koch

2010

Informatics for Health and Social Care

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“…Thus, timely intervention and prevention measures may be taken to avoid further deterioration. This person-centered, ubiquitous care scenario demands new forms of living and care [3,4], and along with this a new kind of information system architecture with regard to health information. This architecture must include not only the personal or home environment as a source of relevant health data, but also the caregivers and other health professionals as opposed to current institution-centric architectures [5,6].…”

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Wearable Sensors in Healthcare and Sensor-Enhanced Health Information Systems: All Our Tomorrows?

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Wearable sensor systems which allow for remote or self-monitoring of health-related parameters are regarded as one means to alleviate the consequences of demographic change. This paper aims to summarize current research in wearable sensors as well as in sensor-enhanced health information systems. Wearable sensor technologies are already advanced in terms of their technical capabilities and are frequently used for cardio-vascular monitoring. Epidemiologic predictions suggest that neuropsychiatric diseases will have a growing impact on our health systems and thus should be addressed more intensively. Two current project examples demonstrate the benefit of wearable sensor technologies: long-term, objective measurement under daily-life, unsupervised conditions. Finally, up-to-date approaches for the implementation of sensor-enhanced health information systems are outlined. Wearable sensors are an integral part of future pervasive, ubiquitous and person-centered health care delivery. Future challenges include their integration into sensor-enhanced health information systems and sound evaluation studies involving measures of workload reduction and costs.

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“…In other words, poorly defined and unstructured eHealth projects have a tendency to be data and information driven, instead of action driven (Karsh et al, 2010). In order to avoid these threats, the entire eHealth project, including its long-term and wide-ranging implications, must be well thought out, while its contextual role and functions within the health care system must be clearly defined (Haux et al, 2008;Kanjo, 2011), yet flexible and adaptable to requirements and continuous changes in health care ecosystem and broader social environment.…”

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Development of eHealth in Slovenia - Critical Issues and Future Directions

Stanimirović¹

2015

CEPAR

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Although the basic informatization of the health care system was established relatively early, Slovenia still does not have an interoperable and comprehensive health information system (HIS). Fragmentation of information systems (IS) and their limited interoperability significantly compromise further development of the health care system and adversely affect the quality of health care services. Overcoming the aforementioned challenges requires the progressive implementation of eHealth project, which is one of the key long-term goals of the Slovenian public sector. The main objective of eHealth is the comprehensive integration of distributed IS and connection of a widespread network of stakeholders within the health care system. The paper presents the review of eHealth projects in Slovenia, Austria and Denmark, and provides a comparative analysis of the eHealth development in designated countries. Focusing on the Slovenian experience, the paper summarizes the main deficiencies in the current eHealth settings, and finally outlines a set of applicable guidelines for an effective development and implementation of highly intricate and complex eHealth project.

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Health-enabling technologies for pervasive health care: on services and ICT architecture paradigms

Cited by 55 publications

References 41 publications

Healthy ageing supported by technology – a cross-disciplinary research challenge

Healthy ageing supported by technology – a cross-disciplinary research challenge

Wearable Sensors in Healthcare and Sensor-Enhanced Health Information Systems: All Our Tomorrows?

Development of eHealth in Slovenia - Critical Issues and Future Directions

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