Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
2.1.4.
Consolidated view
R
oadmap 2.
Health, rehabilitation and care.
Short term (2015)
Mid term (2020)
Long term (2025)
Intervention of the
patient for powering
and management of
chronic diseases
No patient intervention
for powering and
management of chronic
diseases
Patient part of the care
team, integrated
processes
Self- management of
chronic diseases
Integration of services
at care delivery
organisation, link to
non-healthcare services
like fitness and activity
management
Remote consults using
audio and high
resolution video
Many stand-alone
services like tele-
monitoring, Remote
consults using audio
and low resolution
video
Cross institutional
integration, supporting
integrative care models
Chronic disease
management
Extended with
educational and
motivation for the
patient and drug
interaction check
Reminder system with
monitoring of
medication intake
Medication
management
Integrated into disease
management
Support and monitor
exercises with
operational devices at
home, using simple
neuro-scientific control
models
Support and monitor
exercises with
exoskeleton-like
devices using advanced
neuro-scientific control
models
Monitor exercises in
home situation using
wearable sensors
Rehabilitation
Integration of services
at care delivery
organisation, link to
non-healthcare services
like fitness and activity
management
Decision support and
workflow support
Stand-alone services
like tele-monitoring,
tele-consultation,
medication
management, activity
management
Cross institutional
integration, supporting
integrative care models
and non healthcare
services
Care team support
Challenges
There are several challenges in the domain of AAL for health, rehabilitation and care.
The following list presents a number of them.
Integration aspects.
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Interoperability (AALIANCE, 2009), this relates standardization of data
models, protocols, message formats, ontology's and vocabularies to
enable meaningful exchange of data between services.
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Dynamic configuration of services, within the home or around the person
(taking into account the joining and leaving of devices and the paring of
devices) as well as back-end services.
Video communication evolving from low resolution to high resolution.
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Security and privacy in an environment covering home, the person's
immediate environment, the wide area network and the back-end services.
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Bandwidth availability.
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Robustness and fall-back in case of problems.
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Power management and low-power sensors and actuators.
New type of sensors, e.g. related to bio-markers.
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