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Journal Article
Personalized Healthcare System for Chronic Disease Care in Cloud Environment
- Authors
- Sangjin Jeong, Yong-Woon Kim, Chan-Hyun Youn
- Issue Date
- 2014-10
- Citation
- ETRI Journal, v.36, no.5, pp.730-740
- ISSN
- 1225-6463
- Publisher
- 한국전자통신연구원 (ETRI)
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- The rapid increase in the number of patients with chronic diseases is an important public healthcare issue in many countries, which accelerates many studies on a healthcare system that can, whenever and wherever, extract and process patient data. A patient with a chronic disease conducts self-management in an out-of-hospital environment, particularly in an at-home environment, so it is important to provide integrated and personalized healthcare services for effective care. To help provide effective care for chronic disease patients, we propose a service flow and a new cloud-based personalized healthcare system architecture supporting both at-home and at-hospital environments. The system considers the different characteristics of at-hospital and at-home environments, and it provides various chronic disease care services. A prototype implementation and a predicted cost model are provided to show the effectiveness of the system. The proposed personalized healthcare system can support cost-effective disease care in an at-hospital environment and personalized self-management of chronic disease in an at-home environment.
- KSP Keywords
- Chronic disease patients, Healthcare System, Home Environment, Patient data, Personalized healthcare services, Prototype implementation, Public healthcare, Self-management, Support cost, System architecture, cloud environment