The Development and Deployment of the Intelligent Health Care and Promotion Environment--- A Case Study on Older People with Potential or Suffering from Metabolic Syndrome

This research aims to develop an intelligent healthcare environment and to successfully build it into families and communities with older people potentially suffering from metabolic syndrome. The developed environment is expected to provide user-centred health care and promotion for the elderly potentially suffering from metabolic syndrome, which is to give the relevant advice and health education by the record of vital data and the analysis through a distributed expert consultation system and a metabolic syndrome expert system. It would help older people to understand their current situation and to make the most of early treatment and early prevention from metabolic syndrome. Therefore, this research focuses on the establishment of an intelligent health care and promotion environment into the selection of families and communities. When completed the research, the concrete contribution is expected to be two-fold. One of metabolic syndrome will be conducted mainly in the elderly needs to import an intelligent health care and promotion environment in the family and the community, so that older people use the developed system for their health management to reduce the chances of suffering from chronic diseases. Secondly, it explores the key factors and users (doctors, medical professionals, elderly persons, and elderly family members) of the implementation of the developed environment into the families and communities in the work of its acceptance. This research results and processes are available as a reference to help other research institutions in the success rate of the development and deployment of similar systems into families and communities and will help to improve the user satisfaction.

Project ID:PE9907-2632
External Project ID:NSC99-2410-H182-034