Research Article
wHealth - Transforming Telehealth Services
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.9-8-2016.151635, author={Rajib Rana and Margee Hume and John Reilly and Sabe Sabesan and Jeffrey Soar}, title={wHealth - Transforming Telehealth Services}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems}, volume={3}, number={8}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={SIS}, year={2016}, month={8}, keywords={Telehealth, wireless health, elderly health care.}, doi={10.4108/eai.9-8-2016.151635} }- Rajib Rana
Margee Hume
John Reilly
Sabe Sabesan
Jeffrey Soar
Year: 2016
wHealth - Transforming Telehealth Services
SIS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.9-8-2016.151635
Abstract
A worldwide increase in proportions of older people in the population poses the challenge of managing their increasing healthcare needs within limited resources. To achieve this many countries are interested in adopting telehealth technology. Several shortcomings of state-of-the-art telehealth technology constrain widespread adoption of telehealth services. We present an ensemble-sensing framework - wHealth (short form of wireless health) for effective delivery of telehealth services. It extracts personal health information using sensors embedded in everyday devices and allows effective and seamless communication between patients and clinicians. Due to the non stigmatizing design, ease of maintenance, simplistic interaction and seamless intervention, our wHealth platform has the potential to enable widespread adoption of telehealth services for managing elderly healthcare. We discuss the key barriers and potential solutions to make the wHealth platform a reality.
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