Health Maintenance Embedded Systems in Home Care Applications

Abstract

In this article there are described applications of embedded systems for diagnostic and maintenance planning in healthcare applications. During the recent years, there was a rapid growth in the development of maintenance telemedicine systems and monitoring devices for patients with chronic diseases and those requiring continuous telemonitoring treatments. However most of these systems only provide telemonitoring services or basic information about the health condition of the patients. For this reason an intelligent home health care embedded system that can provide to the patients with diagnosis their health status at home is developed. As a result different types of pluggable medical transducers for patients with different illnesses can be flexibly connected to the interface of the embedded system. The home care systems are possible to use as predictive diagnostic systems.