Connectivity for Healthcare and Well-Being Management: Examples from Six European Projects

Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Ricardo Castellot Lou, Athanasios Anastasiou, Chris D. Nugent, Jan Alexandersson, Gottfried Zimmermann, Ulises Cortes and Roberto Casas
Additional contact information
Maged N. Kamel Boulos: Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Devon, UK
Ricardo Castellot Lou: Telefónica I+D, Parque Technológico Walqa, Edif. 1, Ctra Zaragoza 330 km, 58 Huesca, 22199 Spain
Athanasios Anastasiou: Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Devon, UK
Chris D. Nugent: School of Computing and Mathematics and Computer Science Research Institute, Faculty of Computing and Engineering, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, Northern Ireland, UK
Jan Alexandersson: The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Gottfried Zimmermann: Access Technologies Group, Wilhelm-Blos-Str. 8, 72793 Pfullingen, Germany
Ulises Cortes: Artificial Intelligence Section (IA), LSI - Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Edificis C5-C6, Campus Nord, Jordi Girona 1-3, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
Roberto Casas: TecnoDiscap Group, University of Zaragoza, Maria de Luna 1/3, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain

IJERPH, 2009, vol. 6, issue 7, 1-25

Abstract: Technological advances and societal changes in recent years have contributed to a shift in traditional care models and in the relationship between patients and their doctors/carers, with (in general) an increase in the patient-carer physical distance and corresponding changes in the modes of access to relevant care information by all groups. The objective of this paper is to showcase the research efforts of six projects (that the authors are currently, or have recently been, involved in), CAALYX, eCAALYX, COGKNOW, EasyLine+, I2HOME, and SHARE-it, all funded by the European Commission towards a future where citizens can take an active role into managing their own healthcare. Most importantly, sensitive groups of citizens, such as the elderly, chronically ill and those suffering from various physical and cognitive disabilities, will be able to maintain vital and feature-rich connections with their families, friends and healthcare providers, who can then respond to, and prevent, the development of adverse health conditions in those they care for in a timely manner, wherever the carers and the people cared for happen to be.

Keywords: telehealthcare; telehealth; telemonitoring; telecare; homecare; well-being and lifestyle management; wireless body area networks; assistive technologies; domotics; eHealth; Internet; older people (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/7/1947/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/6/7/1947/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:6:y:2009:i:7:p:1947-1971:d:5298

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().