scholarly journals Usability Problems Experienced by Elderly Users in Home Healthcare Systems

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Bruun
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Elderly Users

A CUSTOMIZED AND PORTABLE COMPONENT-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR INTELLIGENT HOMECARE SYSTEM DESIGN WITH VIDEO AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING MACHINERIES

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (05) ◽  
pp. 325-348
Author(s):  
Yen-Lin Chen ◽  
Chuan-Yen Chiang ◽  
Chao-Wei Yu ◽  
Shyan-Ming Yuan ◽  
Zeng-Wei Hong
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Physiological State ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Reusable Component ◽  
Treatment Plans ◽  
Functional Components

This study proposes a customized and reusable component-based design framework based on the UML modeling process for intelligent home healthcare systems. All the proposed functional components are reusable, replaceable, and extensible for the system developers to implement customized home healthcare systems addressing different demands of patients and caregivers from healthcare monitoring aspects. The prototype design of the intelligent healthcare system based on these proposed components can provide the following features: (1) monitoring and recording videos of rehabilitation situations and patient behavior using multiple CCD cameras, which can be stored accordingly in an archive; (2) recording the patient's physiological data and corresponding treatment plan, which can be stored in an XML archiving database for caregivers' review; (3) automatically alerting patients to remind them of medication schedules or treatment plans, while recording the patient's treatment situations; (4) caregivers monitoring videos and physiological records of the patient's rehabilitation using handheld mobile devices via the Internet or wireless communication networks; and (5) caregivers and patients establishing alert mechanisms for the patients' physiological warning states. If the patient's physiological state suddenly deteriorates, the module would immediately alert caregivers by sending notification messages to their remote mobile devices or web browsers.

scholarly journals Wearable Technology and Visual Reality Application for Healthcare Systems

Electronics ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Kuang-Hao Lin ◽  
Bo-Xun Peng
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Wearable Technology ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Physiological Conditions ◽  
Cloud Database ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Average Slope ◽  
Elderly Users ◽  
Electromyography Signals

This study developed a virtual reality interactive game with smart wireless wearable technology for healthcare of elderly users. The proposed wearable system uses its intelligent and wireless features to collect electromyography signals and upload them to a cloud database for further analysis. The electromyography signals are then analyzed for the users’ muscle fatigue, health, strength, and other physiological conditions. The average slope maximum So and Chan (ASM S & C) algorithm is integrated in the proposed system to effectively detect the quantity of electromyography peaks, and the accuracy is as high as 95%. The proposed system can promote the health conditions of elderly users, and motivate them to acquire new knowledge of science and technology.

Evaluating the Usability of Home Healthcare Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Bruun ◽  
Jan Stage
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Target User ◽  
Healthcare Application ◽  
High Level

Home healthcare applications have the potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of life for elderly people who prefer to stay in their own homes instead of making frequent visits to the hospital. This requires ambient assisted living applications that fulfil relevant needs of the users; yet it also requires applications with a high level of usability in order to achieve user acceptance, especially when the target user group is elderly people. This chapter proposes a method to be used for conducting usability evaluations of smart healthcare applications. It includes a report from a usability evaluation where the method was used to evaluate a simple home healthcare application for collecting personal health data in the home. The usability evaluation demonstrates that the method presented here facilitates identification of key usability problems, while the efforts required to conduct the evaluation are considerably reduced compared to conventional methods.

scholarly journals Biomedical Monitoring Technologies and Future Healthcare Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Chan ◽  
Eric Campo ◽  
Damien Brulin ◽  
Daniel Est`eve
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Delivery System ◽  
Biomedical Monitoring ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Monitoring Technologies

Healthcare Systems (HCSs) throughout the world undergo important changes driven by aging populations and advances in biomedical technologies. At the same time, in the current economic climate, many Western countries are struggling to reduce public spending on all kinds of services, including healthcare. With this tension between tightening budgets and skyrocketing costs, many countries are seeking to identify ways of using Information Technology (IT) and Monitoring Technologies (MTs) to improve the efficiencies of HCSs while not reducing, or possibly even improving, the quality of healthcare and their delivery. Many experiments have been in progress since the 1990s. This paper has conducted a review evaluating such HCSs in terms of advantages and drawbacks. The objective of this review is to provide some illustrative publications and works and examples of Health Information Technology (HIT) systems to finally determine the place of biomedical MTs in the future HCS. We present the healthcare delivery system (HCDS) organization with roles of the different stakeholders, state initiatives in healthcare information delivery systems and the new relation between the hospital and the home though a new equilibrium. We mentioned the increasing role of telemedicine (TM), telecare (TLC) and telemonitoring (TLM) and expectations for monitoring the elderly. These expectations lead to preventive approaches based on monitoring technologies and pervasive healthcare (PH) which made healthcare improvements and cost reductions possible. Finally, we show the challenges and opportunities of the hospital versus home healthcare delivery.

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