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Development of an Ease-of-Use Remote Healthcare System Architecture Using RFID and Networking Technologies

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The study aims to provide an ease-of-use approach for senior patients to utilize remote healthcare systems. An ease-of-use remote healthcare system (RHS) architecture using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and networking technologies is developed. Specifically, the codes in RFID tags are used for authenticating the patients’ ID to secure and ease the login process. The patient needs only to take one action, i.e. placing a RFID tag onto the reader, to automatically login and start the RHS and then acquire automatic medical services. An ease-of-use emergency monitoring and reporting mechanism is developed as well to monitor and protect the safety of the senior patients who have to be left alone at home. By just pressing a single button, the RHS can automatically report the patient’s emergency information to the clinic side so that the responsible medical personnel can take proper urgent actions for the patient. Besides, Web services technology is used to build the Internet communication scheme of the RHS so that the interoperability and data transmission security between the home server and the clinical server can be enhanced. A prototype RHS is constructed to validate the effectiveness of our designs. Testing results show that the proposed RHS architecture possesses the characteristics of ease to use, simplicity to operate, promptness in login, and no need to preserve identity information. The proposed RHS architecture can effectively increase the willingness of senior patients who act slowly or are unfamiliar with computer operations to use the RHS. The research results can be used as an add-on for developing future remote healthcare systems.

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Abbreviations

AA:

Authentication and Authorization

ASA:

Automatic Service Agent

AV:

Audio/Video

AVIA:

AV Interaction Agent

CA:

Communication Agent

DQA:

Data Query Agent

ECG:

Electrocardiogram

EMA:

Emergency Monitoring Agent

EMR:

Emergency Monitoring and Reporting

EMRA:

Emergency Monitoring and Reporting Agent

GUI:

Graphical User Interface

HTTP:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

ID:

Identity

IDA:

Identification Agent

MLVPA:

Multi-Language Vocal Prompt Agent

PDA:

Personal Digital Assistant

PSA:

Pre-Schedule Agent

RF:

Radio Frequency

RFID:

Radio Frequency Identification

RHS:

Remote Healthcare System

RMA:

Regular Measurement Agent

SD:

System Database

SOAP:

Simple Object Access Protocol

SSL:

Secure Socket Layer

UMA:

User Management Agent

XML:

Extensible Markup Language

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank the National Science Council of the Republic of China (R.O.C.) for financially supporting this research under Contract No. NSC 98-2221-E-606-019 and NSC 100-2221-E-034-014. Many thanks are also given to Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, National Defense University, and Chinese Culture University (under Flying Geese Program), R.O.C., for financially supporting this research. This work is also financially supported by Advanced Institute of Manufacturing with High-tech Innovations (AIM-HI), Taiwan, R.O.C.

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    Shih-Sung Lin

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Min-Hsiung Hung, Chang-Lung Tsai & Li-Ping Chou

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Lin, SS., Hung, MH., Tsai, CL. et al. Development of an Ease-of-Use Remote Healthcare System Architecture Using RFID and Networking Technologies. J Med Syst 36, 3605–3619 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-012-9836-0

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