Smart Homes
Bitterman N. European Journal of Internal Medicine, 22(1)
Health care services are moving out to the community and into the home; e-health services, remote monitoring technology and self-management are replacing hospitalization and visits to medical clinics and custom-tailored medicines are making inroads into normative treatment. These developments have great implications for the scope and design of home health care equipment. The paper discusses the unique nature of home medical devices, from a human-environment-machine perspective, focusing on the nature of users, environment and tasks performed. We call for increased awareness and active continuous involvement of health care personnel together with bioengineers, human factors experts, architects, designers and end users–patients and caregivers–in defining the objectives of health care devices and services at home in terms of “all family” use, integrated into the overall surroundings (”smart home”), and as part of a collaborative patient-physician disease management team.
15 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Design, Devices, Digital Homecare, Physician-Patient Relationship, selfcare, Smart Homes, Wellness
HEALTH.IN.GR, Pathfinder
“Με επιτυχία υλοποιείται μία ακόμη υπηρεσία του Δήμου Τρικκαίων, με στόχο την αναβάθμιση και επέκταση των υπαρχόντων υπηρεσιών τηλε-φροντίδας, με την χρήση των νέων τεχνολογιών.
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28 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Greece | Tag(s): Dementia, Smart Homes, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring
Linskell J, Hill J. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 4(4)
This paper describes the role that smart home technology can play in enhancing the provision of supported living for people with complex needs and challenging behaviour. Intelligent building systems, or smart house technologies, offer a flexible environment that can be readily adapted and mapped onto the needs of service users and their carers. The effective management and presentation of information on the activity of service users can assist in planning care and facilitating responses to their needs in ways that promote individual dignity and independence.
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6 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: UK | Tag(s): Assistive Technology, Digital Homecare, Smart Homes
Telecare Aware
“Technology devised by researchers at the University of Washington and the Georgia Institute of Technology uses a home’s copper electrical wiring as a giant antenna to receive wireless signals, allowing for the possibility of wireless sensors that run for decades on a single watch battery.
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22 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Sensors, Smart Homes, Wireless
eHealthNews.eu
“A consultation inviting citizens, businesses and researchers to share ideas on how best to use information and communications technologies (ICTs) to help older Europeans live more independently, and more generally to establish new ways to put ICTs at the service of the most vulnerable members of society, has been launched by a high-level panel established to advise the European Commission on the functioning of the Ambient Assisted Living joint programme (AAL JP).
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4 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): Assistive Technology, Digital Homecare, Elderly, ICT, Robot, Smart Homes
Annelies Vermeulen, ICTzorg
“Om zieke ouderen zo lang mogelijk thuis te laten wonen wil een aantal Europese onderzoekers robots en smart homes met elkaar verbinden. Het onderzoek wordt gecoördineerd door de TU Eindhoven.
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1 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): Digital Homecare, Elderly, Robot, Smart Homes
Guy Dewsbury, Hidden Wires
“Smart home technology in the UK has tended to focus on the market sector of audio visual technologies and technologies for larger corporate buildings or very rich people. In many ways this is the natural order of things from a free market perspective. What is interesting, to me, is that there is a sector which might be the growth point for the future, namely disabled people.
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14 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): disabled, Smart Homes
MacGregor Campbell, NewScientist
“Humans are creatures of habit, as a sensor-stuffed apartment at Washington State University in Pullman knows. The smart home can learn the ways of its inhabitants simply by observing how they walk around and use different appliances.
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2 September 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Digital Homecare, Sensors, Smart Homes
Sarah Bruce, e-Health Insider
“The Royal Academy of Engineering has published a report on the social, legal and ethical issues of using robots in healthcare and called for more debate on the acceptability of using them.
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21 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Compunetics, Legal, Robot, Smart Homes
Royal Academy of Engineering
“Autonomous systems are likely to emerge in a number of areas over the coming decades. From unmanned vehicles and robots on the battlefield, to autonomous robotic surgery devices, applications for technologies that can operate without human control, learn as they function and ostensively make decisions, are growing.
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21 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: Report, Science | Country: UK | Tag(s): Compunetics, Legal, Robot, Smart Homes
