Designing an Intelligent Health Monitoring System and Exploring User Acceptance for the Elderly

    Authors

    K. C. Tseng; C. L. Hsu;Y. H. Chuang

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Med. Syst.

    Keywords

    Elderly; Health monitoring; Nursing home; Vital sign; User acceptance; INFORMATION-SYSTEMS; CARE SERVICE; TECHNOLOGY; FRAILTY; TAIWAN; INDEX; Health Care Sciences & Services; Medical Informatics

    Abstract

    Recently, many healthcare or health monitoring systems are proposed to improve life quality of the elderly in the aging process. The elderly are generally with poor health and low information literacy. Low information literacy might be an obstacle of using such systems. This research considered the characteristics and the needs of the elderly and developed an intelligent health monitoring system for the elderly with low information literacy living in the nursing home. The system is intelligent since it can monitor the health status of the elderly based on clinical and medical knowledge, provide an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use user interface for the elderly, and automatically send important or emergency feedback to caregivers. Finally, we explored the user acceptance for the elderly using our proposed system based on the unified theory of acceptance and user of technology model. The experimental results indicate the developed system is highly accepted by the elderly in terms of performance expectation, endeavor expectation, social influence, and facilitating condition.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Medical Systems

    Volume

    37

    Issue/Number

    6

    Publication Date

    1-1-2013

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    18

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000327459800001

    ISSN

    0148-5598

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