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A Prototype Implementation of U-pillbox System

eng

18810667

https://doi.org/10.15002/00010521

法政大学大学院情報科学研究科

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51

56

2014-03

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Abstract—Healthcare has become one of the hot issues in 21st century, not only in computer science and information technology, hut also in sociology, medical science and public services management. To provide convenient and efficient healthcare service, u-healthcare (ubiquitous healthcare) systems, which reshape the traditional healthcare systems and enhance e- healthcare (electronic healthcare) systems with awareness of a patient's situation on the basis of advanced network and sensor technology, are proposed recently and will he the next generation of healthcare products. The empathetic u-pillbox system is a heuristic example of u-healthcare systems that emphasizes humanistic healthcare service provision to the elderly. This paper is based on the contours of u-pillbox system, proposed a prototype to inherit its theory, demonstrated a software implementation to realize this idea, and addressed that how the prototype can he extended for potential widely applications such as further healthcare services to elderly users, their family members or other concerned parties.

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