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The hospital and home are ancillary places in the life of elderly people, people with high risk of health problems or patients who have had recently an operation. We propose an architecture for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and health environments that supports pre-hospital health emergencies, remote monitoring of patients with chronic conditions, and medical collaboration through sharing of health-related information resources. We use the CEN/ISO EN13606 standard for EHR (electronic health record) and transfer information between medical systems, so that we can be open to the hospital systems and use the knowledge from the state of the patient at home for a better diagnosis, include directly sensors measure in the patient EHR among other. This architecture also supports the most important technologies for Home Automation, so we can combine security, comfort and Ambient intelligence solutions with a medical system. Thereby, to improve the elderly people’s Quality of Life (QoL).
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Jara, A.J., Zamora, M.A., Skarmeta, A.F.G. (2009). An Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living and Health Environments. In: Omatu, S., et al. Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_134
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