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The Relevance of Providing Useful and Personalized Information to Therapists and Caregivers in Tele*

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Nowadays, filtering and analyzing data coming from Tele* (i.e. telemedicine, telerehabiliation, telemonitoring, telecare, and teleassistance) systems is becoming more and more relevant. In fact, those systems gather a lot of data coming from patients through wearable, domotic, and environmental sensors, as well as questionnaires and interviews. The role of therapists and care givers is essential for remotely assisting the corresponding patients. Thus, intelligent solutions able to understand all those data and process them to keep therapists and caregivers aware about their assisted persons are needed. Moreover, friendly and useful tools for accessing and visualizing those data must be provided to therapists and caregivers. In this chapter, we present a generic Tele* solution that, in principle, may be customized to whatever kind of real scenarios to give a continuous and efficient support to therapists and caregivers. The aim of the proposed solution is to be as flexible as possible in order to be able to provide telerehabilitation, telemonitoring, teleassistance or a conjunction of them, depending on the real situation. Three customizations of the generic platform are also presented.

Marc Solà and Alexander Steblin contributed equally to this work.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s, Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013, BackHome project Grant Agreement No. 288566 and REWIRE project Grant 287713.

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    Juan Manuel Fernández, Marc Solà, Alexander Steblin, Eloisa Vargiu & Felip Miralles

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Fernández, J.M., Solà, M., Steblin, A., Vargiu, E., Miralles, F. (2017). The Relevance of Providing Useful and Personalized Information to Therapists and Caregivers in Tele*. In: Lai, C., Giuliani, A., Semeraro, G. (eds) Information Filtering and Retrieval. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 668. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46135-9_6

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