A personalized healthcare system for chronic disease care in home-hospital cloud environments

Abstract

The increasing number of patients having chronic diseases is becoming an important issue in many countries. Since a patient having chronic disease usually spends most of time with self-management in out-of-hospital environments, particularly athome environment, and patients have different disease statuses and management requirements, it is important to provide integrated and personalized healthcare services for the patients. However, many studies aim to develop integrated and computationally efficient healthcare systems, and the development of personalized patients customizable healthcare system is less considered. To resolve this issue, we propose a cloud-based personalized healthcare system for chronic disease care. The proposed system provides several chronic disease care services including metabolic syndrome care services. Further, the service broker module within the proposed personalized healthcare system, which supports dynamic provision and configuration of personalized at-home healthcare system in cloud environments, is described. Finally, the prototype implementation of the proposed personalized healthcare system including the service broker and mobile applications for patients are presented. We expect the proposed personalized healthcare system to be applicable to provide cost effective and personalized chronic disease care.