Cost-effective Healthcare Telemonitoring
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چکیده
The importance of home healthcare telemonitoring for elderly and outpatients has been widely recognised. However, the adoption rate of home healthcare telemonitoring remains low due to limited evidence for cost-effectiveness. The core objective of this work is the cost-effective design of a real-time home healthcare telemonitoring system based on mobile cloud computing. A second objective is to develop a simulation environment in order for us to produce robust evidence for the cost-effectiveness of a telemonitoring system in order to explore technology choices prior to moving to full-scale trials. We are at an early stage, yet the results so far have been encouraging. Whilst we may not be able to deliver a complete solution, we are confident that the methodological contribution of test environment plus simulation models will enable us to put the evaluation of telehealth solutions prior to moving to full-scale trials on a more scientific basis.
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