Telecare-Home Care Model
Min-Huei (Marc) Hsu, M.D., M.Sc. CIO, Taipei Medical University
Agenda
• Introduction of home care model • Live Demo
• Experiencing the service • Q&A
Community Care Home Care Residential Care
LTC Networking Platform
Telecare Central Station (TCS)
Telecare Call Center (TCC)
Content of Service
• telemonitoring of physiological
parameters (blood pressure and/or blood sugar)
• providing the relevant health information and medication instructions through the set top box
• offering consultations with healthcare professionals by videoconferences
Inclusion criteria
• the elderly whose Barthel’s index equals ninety or below
• the patients with diabetes mellitus or hypertension
• there might be more than one patient in the same family (caregiver with
Telemonitoring of blood pressure
and blood sugar
• All the data were uploaded to the central data
base with an automatic alert system in telehealth service center.
• The on-duty staffs in the TSC would respond to any laboratory critical values and reminded
patients or caregivers if they didn’t upload the data as the frequency set by the physicians.
• The data were also integrated into the hospital’s computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
system. And the clinicians might retrieve the data in the hospital information system (HIS) directly.
Devices
Measuremen t equipment Display Upload equipment Internet Application system TV Home Gateway (set top box) 256 K Web-based ADSLLive Demo
• Simulation of patient’s living
room
• Simulation of TSC (Call center)
• How on-duty staff respond to
• User Friendly: Design for Senior Citizens
Monitoring Home Gateway System
• Upload with the Voice Guide
– Step1: Choice Your name and item
– Step2: Measurements of blood pressure/ blood sugar. – Step3: Turn off the meter.
• 7 Days, 30 Days, 90 Days History Data • Line Chart & Characters Data
• Tele-education Video • Four Different Subjects:
