Development and Application of Telehealth Care in Management of Blood Pressure, Body Weight and Physical Activity in an Intelligent Community

Introduction: Development and application of a novel health care feedback system monitoring blood pressure, body weight and physical activity in Hsinchu City to explore the service model prevention of vascular diseases. Methods: Development of circuit physical measurement vehicle, electronization care facility and digital storage device. Development of telehealth care system with design of software including user module, databank module, expertise consultation module, and feedback module; design of hard ware and validation of the activity counter. There will be three phase to conduct the study: first will recruit 60 years old citizen from the senior activities in North and Siangshang districts; second will recruit East district with residents from four communities; and the third phase will recruit adult employee. There will be 600 adult recruited in three years with low risk of vascular disease 350, moderate risk 170, and high risk 80. Measurements will be uploaded, analyzed and feedback electronically with study duration of six months. The primary outcome measures will be the perception of vascular diseases, health behavior and health status along with medical checkup. The secondary outcome measures will be the cost of soft and hard ware, cardiovascular risk scores and possible the utilization of health care. Future follow up more than 6 months and cohort study will be explored. Expected results: By participation of the construction of health community, the participants of this study will have health promoted with positive dose response from the compliance. The improvement of the blood pressure, body weight and physical activities might applied to the decreased risk of vascular diseases. There will be several patents generated from this study.

Project ID:PC10301-0540
External Project ID:NSC102-2314-B182-063-MY2