Context-Aware Based Quality of Life Telemonitoring
Telemonitoring Quality of Life of individuals is the base for current and future telemedicine and teleassistance solutions which will become paramount in the sustainability and effectiveness of healthcare systems. In the framework of the BackHome European
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Context-Aware Based Quality of Life Telemonitoring Eloisa Vargiu, Juan Manuel Fernández and Felip Miralles
Abstract Telemonitoring Quality of Life of individuals is the base for current and future telemedicine and teleassistance solutions which will become paramount in the sustainability and effectiveness of healthcare systems. In the framework of the BackHome European R&D project, which aims to provide a telemonitoring and home support system using Brain Computer Interfaces and other assistive technologies to improve autonomy and quality of life of disabled people, we propose a methodology to assess and telemonitor quality of life of individuals based on the awareness of user context. This methodology holds a generic approach to be applied to other eHealth use cases and is based on the acquisition, fusion and processing of heterogeneous data coming from sensors, devices, and user interaction, and the knowledge inferred from the correlation of this processed data and the input coming from our proposed questionnaires mapped to standard taxonomies. The proposed methodology is very ambitious and although we are presenting preliminary validation, it will have to be formally validated and enhanced with the study of representative user data which will be acquired within BackHome and other related projects. Keywords Pervasive computing · Telemonitoring · Home support · Quality of life
E. Vargiu (B) · J. Manuel Fernández · F. Miralles Barcelona Digital Technology Center, Barcelona, Spain e-mail: [email protected] J. Manuel Fernández e-mail: [email protected] F. Miralles e-mail: [email protected]
C. Lai et al. (eds.), Distributed Systems and Applications of Information Filtering and Retrieval, Studies in Computational Intelligence 515, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40621-8_1, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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1 Introduction The demographic trend of our ageing society is partly due to the amazing progress of medicine in the last decades, which has increased life expectancy and improved quality of life, specially to people living in developed countries. However, this demographic shift comes along with an important stress to our healthcare systems, which nowadays face sustainability problems. Design of solutions which take advantage of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provide efficiency, efficacy and cost-effectiveness to care practice. Telemedicine solutions allow treating chronic patients living at home, preventing and predicting exacerbations and decrease costly hospitalizations. Telerehabilitation solutions enable following continuous interventions which may improve health conditions without the need for the patient to physically move to specialized facilities. Teleassistance solutions facilitate improving autonomy, safety and social participation of people with special needs, namely the elderly and in particular the disabled, through home support technologies which postpone socio-sanitary services and associated costs. One key common feature of all those nove
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