Cloud computing-based smart home-based rehabilitation nursing system for early intervention
Journal
Advanced Science Letters
Journal Volume
20
Journal Issue
1
Pages
218-221
Date Issued
2014
Author(s)
Abstract
Early intervention in Taiwan is facing the problems of restricted early intervention budget, rural-urban resource divide and unequal utilization, time and energy consuming for the caregivers and pupils making round trips for intervention services, and short treatment period, which are likely to affect the promotion and development of early intervention. As a consequence, this study coordinates with early intervention Center of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), with the example of developmental movement disordered children, establishing Home-Based Rehabilitation Management System for early intervention and moving the rehabilitation treatment in hospitals to homes so that the time and medical cost for children making round trips to hospitals could be reduced and the rehabilitation effect on patients could be achieved through motion-sensing games. Being a Telecare-based caring platform with the combination of Cloud services and Kinect motion-sensing games, this system provides Cloud services of medical service (Early Intervention Center of the NTUH), Medical Information System of the NTUH, and homecare service at the user-end. In consideration of the scalability of the system, modular design is applied to the provided Cloud services for making adjustments according to the number of patients. © 2014 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved.
Type
journal article