Tele-healthcare systems for end-of-life decision at home

Makoto Yoshizawa; Hitoshi Ohuchi; Kenji Nunokawa; Kouichi Taniuchi; Norihiro Sugita; Makoto Abe; Noriyasu Homma; Tomoyuki Yambe

doi:10.11239/jsmbe.52.SY-15

Tele-healthcare systems for end-of-life decision at home

Makoto Yoshizawa, Hitoshi Ohuchi, Kenji Nunokawa, Kouichi Taniuchi, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Abe, Noriyasu Homma, Tomoyuki Yambe

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Abstract

Super aging society such as Japan would need tele-healthcare systems for home medical care to suppress medical cost inflation. In this situation, we have developed a tele-healthcare system for end-of-life decision at home using a wireless electrocardiograph combined with a smartphone and a sphygmogram signal extracted from an ordinary video camera. The experimental results have indicated that long term monitoring through the smartphone and a server will provide rich information on the patient's terminal status for doctors in remote locations. However, it is necessary to collect many clinical data to predict the timing of end-of-life more precisely.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	SY-15-SY-16
Journal	Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering
Volume	52
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11239/jsmbe.52.SY-15
Publication status	Published - 2014 Aug 17

Keywords

ECG
End-of-life decision
Tele-healthcare systems
Video camera
Wireless sensor

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Biomedical Engineering

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