ERMHAN: A Context-Aware Service Platform to Support Continuous Care Networks for Home-Based Assistance

Continuous care models for chronic diseases pose several technology-oriented challenges for home-based continuous care, where assistance services rely on a close collaboration among different stakeholders such as health operators, patient relatives, and social community members. Here we describe Emi...

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Main Authors: Federica Paganelli, Emilio Spinicci, Dino Giuli
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2008-01-01
Series:International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/867639
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description Continuous care models for chronic diseases pose several technology-oriented challenges for home-based continuous care, where assistance services rely on a close collaboration among different stakeholders such as health operators, patient relatives, and social community members. Here we describe Emilia Romagna Mobile Health Assistance Network (ERMHAN) a multichannel context-aware service platform designed to support care networks in cooperating and sharing information with the goal of improving patient quality of life. In order to meet extensibility and flexibility requirements, this platform has been developed through ontology-based context-aware computing and a service oriented approach. We also provide some preliminary results of performance analysis and user survey activity.
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spelling doaj-art-385f36870cbb4539b72b2a8e9e4fccf72025-02-03T01:01:48ZengWileyInternational Journal of Telemedicine and Applications1687-64151687-64232008-01-01200810.1155/2008/867639867639ERMHAN: A Context-Aware Service Platform to Support Continuous Care Networks for Home-Based AssistanceFederica Paganelli0Emilio Spinicci1Dino Giuli2National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Firenze via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, ItalyNational Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Firenze via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, ItalyNational Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Firenze via S. Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, ItalyContinuous care models for chronic diseases pose several technology-oriented challenges for home-based continuous care, where assistance services rely on a close collaboration among different stakeholders such as health operators, patient relatives, and social community members. Here we describe Emilia Romagna Mobile Health Assistance Network (ERMHAN) a multichannel context-aware service platform designed to support care networks in cooperating and sharing information with the goal of improving patient quality of life. In order to meet extensibility and flexibility requirements, this platform has been developed through ontology-based context-aware computing and a service oriented approach. We also provide some preliminary results of performance analysis and user survey activity.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/867639
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