Data-Driven Smart Medical Rehabilitation Exercise and Sports Program Using a Living Lab Platform to Promote Community Participation of Individuals with a Disability: A Research and Development Pilot Program

Abstract

Patients discharged from hospitals following the onset of an acute illness or injury rendered with disabling conditions require systematic medical-based and rehabilitation-focused sports and exercise programs accessible in their communities. This proposal aims to build a data-driven smart health system that allows people with disabilities to continuously improve their health by alleviating modifiable factors, including architectural barriers and related challenges following discharge from an inpatient hospital or rehabilitation course. Our goal is to promote a multi-ministerial data-driven innovative medical exercise system using a digital living lab platform as a testbed program to provide lifestyle exercise and physical education for community-dwelling individuals with disabilities. The pilot program of services will be rendered at the living lab center of the National Rehabilitation Center, equipped with data servers for storing accumulated pertinent information and continuous data acquisition. We envision an encrypted data collection and acquisition system, whereby newly acquired data will be merged with data information from original records of individuals generated during the inpatient hospital course.