Abstract
With the advancement of living standards and healthcare systems, there have been significant improvements in life preservation worldwide over this century which are reflected in prolonged life expectancy and are enlarging the aging population. In the foreseeable future, the home care environment is recognized as the first line of defense for health and medical care via proper implementation of state-of-the-art information technologies. For instance, in the home care environment, the tracking of physiological information not only circumvents the high-cost medical manpower and resources, but the signs of abnormal health can also be detected further by long-term and sustaining health records. In this paper the development of an intelligent home healthcare system based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and the mobile agent technologies is described. The system enables the RFID home care service and physiological assessment based on the concept of Location-based Service (LBS). Additionally, by coupling the technologies of dynamic detection and motion detection, a home care system for real-time safety has been designed to prevent the elderly from accidental falling.
Highlights
For the purpose of improving the quality of medical care, more and more health care systems are intensely embracing the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in recent years, combined with the use of assorted hospital information systems (HIS)
Specific research objectives are elaborated : Automatic alerting services for medication reminders: Being frail physically, many seniors are likely to be on medication for various long‐term diseases, such as heart disease, hypertension and diabetes
In view of the foregoing discussion of RFID technology, mobile agent and real‐time safety care, this study focuses on the applications of the RFID and the mobile agent in order to hopefully build a more efficient intelligent health care system
Summary
For the purpose of improving the quality of medical care, more and more health care systems are intensely embracing the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in recent years, combined with the use of assorted hospital information systems (HIS). A medicine‐ reminding mechanism is indispensable for the elderly who have memory‐associated problems In addressing this need, this research proposes to adopt the intelligent mobile agent system as part of the solution to build a healthcare environment that would render necessary the provision of medical care and urgent attention to elderly patients especially when they are at home alone. In other words, when it is time for the patient to take medicine, the agent will automatically retrieve the right information about the medicine from the hospital database and display the reminder information on the flat panel display or other terminal application programs In this way, within the premise of limited public healthcare resources and under the condition of not interfering with and restricting the daily. If the caregivers came to the patient’s home as confirmed by the mobile agent and label identification code, they could access the hospital database to retrieve the medication instructions for the patient and carry out necessary medical administration procedures
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