MIDAS-miniature intelligent domiciliary alarm system-a practical application of telecare

Doughty, K.; Isak, R.; King, Peter; Smith, Peter; Williams, Gareth J.

doi:10.1109/iembs.1999.803846

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“…Two of these -safety and security monitoring and personal monitoring -are largely designed to manage the risks associated with care outside formal care institutions. Personal monitoring can include monitoring people's 'activities of daily living' to detect changes in lifestyle which may indicate an underlying problem (Doughty et al, 1999;Doughty and Williams, 2001). Data from the use of electronic assistive technology (EAT) -which is designed to improve the functionality of the home by providing greater control over features such as doors, furniture and beds -can also be integrated into activity monitoring to provide carers with a better picture of how individuals are coping within their home environment.…”

Section: Definition: Telecare or Telemedicine?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementing complex innovations in fluid multi-stakeholder environments: Experiences of ‘telecare’

2006

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Abstract'Telecare' is the use of information and communication technology to facilitate health and social care delivery to individuals in their own homes. Governments around the world are seeking to introduce telecare partly to help address the challenges posed by an ageing society. Telecare is inherently complex to implement and operate because it involves combination of technological and organisational innovation in an environment of diverse stakeholders.Using research on two telecare schemes in the UK, the paper explores the way project complexity, organisational context and project management approach interacted during the planning and implementation phases. The paper discusses how insights from research in related areas, including medical technology and service sector innovation in general, could help to explain why From: Technovation (forthcoming) NOT TO BE QUOTED WITHOUT PERMISSION 2 mainstream telecare delivery has been difficult and draws conclusions on the role of project management in the implementation of innovation.

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Section: Definition: Telecare or Telemedicine?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementing complex innovations in fluid multi-stakeholder environments: Experiences of ‘telecare’

2006

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“…19,20 The authors introduce this prototype as an implementation of the CarerNet's general model. A prominent feature is its ability to detect quickly deviations from a gold standard of daily living activity, and to "derive an assessment of the client's condition or status at all times."…”

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“…19 In private homes, integrating a burglar alarm system into the global architecture may not add very much to the cost and should increase significantly the feeling of residents' security. Smart homes can also be endowed with closed-loop control, such as in the MIDAS project, 19,20 which utilizes a flood-detector unit that turns off the bathroom faucets whenever an excessive level of moisture is detected. Such local control systems should ease and lighten the remote control operated by the RCC, by accelerating resolution of the problem, but should not aim to replace the human presence in the RCC by full automation.…”

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Health "Smart" Home: Information Technology for Patients at Home

Rialle¹,

Duchêne²,

Noury³

et al. 2002

Telemedicine Journal and e-Health

165

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This article reviews the emerging concept of health "Smart" homes (HSH) and its potential through the use of telemedical information systems and communication technologies. HSH systems provide health care services for people with special needs who wish to remain independent and living in their own home. The large diversity of needs in a home-based patient population requires complex technology. Meeting these needs technically requires the use of a distributed approach and the combination of many hardware and software techniques. We also describe the wide scope of new information, communication, and data-acquisition technologies used in home health care. We offer an introduction to the HSH concept in terms of technical, economic, and human requirements. Examples of HSH projects are presented, including a short description of our own smart home and telehealthcare information system project.

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“…A case study based on an integrated telecare system illustrates the points discussed above. The CarerNet model was used as the basis for a prototype secondgeneration telecare system called MIDAS (Modular Intelligent Domiciliary Alarm System) 18 . A range of prototype smart devices have been developed for use with MIDAS and these are currently undergoing trials in a test apartment and at several other sites in the UK.…”

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Safety and risk issues in using telecare

Williams

Doughty²,

Bradley

2000

J Telemed Telecare

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The increasing adoption of technology to support independent living at home through the extended use of community alarms and, ultimately, second-generation telecare systems poses some safety problems. The implications of any failure of the technology must be addressed in order to provide a safe and reliable care service. The risks of using home-based technology can be assessed by standard techniques under three categories: environmental factors; human factors; and technological factors. A safety classification system for telecare devices is proposed leading to a range of design guidelines which represent good practice. An example of the use of these design principles is a prototype second-generation telecare system, MIDAS, which is currently undergoing trials. In order to reduce the risks associated with device failure, the system incorporates distributed intelligence, built-in self-testing and redundancy. Potentially hazardous situations can therefore be controlled.

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MIDAS-miniature intelligent domiciliary alarm system-a practical application of telecare

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Implementing complex innovations in fluid multi-stakeholder environments: Experiences of ‘telecare’

Implementing complex innovations in fluid multi-stakeholder environments: Experiences of ‘telecare’

Health "Smart" Home: Information Technology for Patients at Home

Safety and risk issues in using telecare

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