Title
WEB-WAP based telecare.
Abstract
We have developed two telecare applications based on mobile telephony (WAP) and WEB. The first can be used to request Basic Life Support (BLS) guidelines any time by using a WAP device and to teach people and non-professionals involved in health care emergency situations. The second is a WEB-WAP based tool for medical data retrieval and at-home health care monitoring of chronically ill patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) or diabetes. Medical education content related to these diseases is available on the WEB and on the WAP device. The WAP application uses the features found in the last generation of mobile phones such as better multimedia information. presentations, better interactivity capabilities, and enhanced ease of use. Based on these two applications, a promising platform is offered for developing applications in health care, home care, medical monitoring and health education ensuring continuity of care. In the paper we present the preliminary results of a pilot test at Thessaloniki University (Greece) where the WEB-WAP based tool is used to monitor patients with diabetes or CHF.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
AMIA 2002 SYMPOSIUM, PROCEEDINGS: BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS: ONE DISCIPLINE
internet,diabetes mellitus
Field
DocType
Citations 
Telemedicine,Health care,Health education,Usability,Telecare,Basic life support,Medical emergency,Medicine,Mobile telephony,The Internet
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gianluca De Leo1729.85
Santosh Krishna233.26
E. Andrew Balas36616.97
N. Maglaveras49713.51
Suzanne Austin Boren5179.08
Francesco Beltrame6565.59
Marco Fato71268.70