Herzog Almut, Lind Leili
Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA), Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
Technol Health Care. 2003;11(2):77-87.
The growing number of the elderly in industrialised countries is increasing the pressure on respective health care systems. This is one reason for recent trends in the development and expansion of home health care organisations. With Internet access available to everyone and the advent of wireless technologies, advanced telehomecare is a possibility for a large proportion of the population. In the near future, one of the authors plans to implement a home health care infrastructure for patients with congestive heart failure and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The system is meant to support regular and ad-hoc measurements of medical parameters in patient homes and transmission of measurement data to the home health care provider. In this paper we look at network technologies that connect sensors and input devices in the patient home to a home health care provider. We consider wireless and Internet technologies from functional and security-related perspectives and arrive at a recommendation for our system. Security and usability aspects of the proposed network infrastructures are explored with special focus on their impact on the patient home.
工业化国家中老年人数量的不断增加，给各自的医疗保健系统带来了越来越大的压力。这是近期家庭医疗保健机构发展和扩张趋势的一个原因。随着互联网普及以及无线技术的出现，先进的远程家庭护理对很大一部分人口来说成为了可能。在不久的将来，本文作者之一计划为充血性心力衰竭患者和慢性阻塞性肺疾病患者实施一个家庭医疗保健基础设施。该系统旨在支持在患者家中定期和临时测量医疗参数，并将测量数据传输给家庭医疗保健提供者。在本文中，我们研究将患者家中的传感器和输入设备连接到家庭医疗保健提供者的网络技术。我们从功能和安全相关的角度考虑无线和互联网技术，并为我们的系统得出一个建议。我们特别关注所提议的网络基础设施对患者家庭的影响，探讨其安全性和可用性方面。
