Multiagent home telecare platform for patients with cardiac diseases

Paper presents a home telecare platform for patients with cardiac diseases usable by medical staff or patients through several agents: a personal digital assistant, a set-top-box (STB), a laptop, and a personal computer (PC), being valid for different cardiac disease scenarios: home intensive telecare, autonomous monitoring, and home hospitalisation. Platform is accessible via web through different technologies (xDSL, HFC, POTS, GPRS, and UMTS in a next future) and main features are videoconference, electronic history record, e-prescription, on-line and off-line monitorisation, scheduler, alarms managers and user customised cardiac information. Home telecare platform is being validated by the Cardiac Unit of 9 d'Octubre Hospital and Home Hospitalisation Unit of La Fe Hospital in Valencia, Spain with satisfactory results.