Health@Home - An e-service model for disease prevention and healthcare in the home

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 1 LNICST, Issue , 2009, Pages 17-24

  Gupta, Milon ^a   Chotard, Laure ^b   Ingpórsson, Ólafur ^c   Bastos, João ^d   Borges, Isabel ^d  

^a EURESCOM GMBH   (Germany)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

^c Síminn R and D   (Iceland)

^d Portugal Telecom Inovacao SA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PREVENTION; E-HEALTH SERVICES; E-SERVICES; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; SERVICE MODEL; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

HEALTH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84859983479     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. European Commission: Special Eurobarometer Report. Health in the European Union (September 2007), http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph-publication/eb-health-en. pdf
2. URL of the CAALYX website, http://www.caalyx.eu
3. URL of the OLDES website, http://www.oldes.eu
4. The doc@Home service, for example, is a tele-health solution for the remote management of patients with a range of chronic diseases, http://www.docobo.co.uk/ArticlePage.aspx?articleId=6&topParentId=7
5. The figure is based on Eurescom P1753 Study Report. Understanding e-health and its promises for Telcos. Deliverable 2: e-health value chain and potential business models for Telcos. Heidelberg, p. 33 (2008)
6. See, e.g., FP7 project OMEGA on home gigabit access, http://www.ict- omega.eu
7. URL of the Continua Alliance website, http://www.continuaalliance.org
8. Commission Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record systems, Brussels, July 2 (2008), http://ec.europa.eu/information- society/activities/health/docs/policy/20080702-interop-recom.pdf
9. Carvel, J.: Family doctors to shun national database of patients' records. The Guardian, November 20 (2007), http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/ 2007/nov/20/nhs.health
10. Medical Research Council (MRC): The Use of Personal Health Information in Medical Research General Public Consultation. Final Report (June 2007), http://www.mrc.ac.uk/consumption/idcplg?IdcService=GET-FILE&dID= 10983&dDocName=MRC003810&allowInterrupt=1