Designing and implementation of tele-health care information system based on health care model

Abstract

This paper describes a concept and system implementation of a tele-health care support system. Traditional medical consultation is carried out face to face. The tele-health care support system should make up the physical distance between the client and clinician. The medical consultation model is proposed based on analyzing the task and information of medical consultation for creating a design methodology for a tele-health care system. The structure of the proposed medical consultation model is created by the idea of a feedback control system. The clinician takes the part of a controller and the client is regarded as a controlled system in the model. How and which parts of the model could be supported by computer and communication technology are discussed. The design and implementation of collaboration among the client, clinician and co-medical staff including family and the establishment of the communication channel are explained as one actual example based on the proposed medical consultation model.