Mobile and multi-stream tele-consultation system for homecare assistance

用于家庭护理援助的移动和多流远程咨询系统

• 批准号: 453076-2013
• 负责人: Michaud, François
• 金额: $ 0.17万
• 依托单位: Université de Sherbrooke
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=554975
• 关键词: Mobile; multi; stream; tele; consultation

Telehealth is defined as the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to extend health care service delivery across distance. Home telehealth uses ICT to provide health care services into a patient's home. Remote vital signs monitoring is a common example and one promising market, but lacks the richness, comforting and subtleties of face-to-face assessments usually done by having either the patient go to the clinic or the clinician going to see the patient at home. To conduct more lively and interactive consultations, virtual visits involve the use of video and audio for live and remote consultations between clinicians and patients. These consultations are done through fixed workstations or mobile devices using web videoconferencing systems not adapted to the practice of clincians. To provide mobility to the interactions that would normally take place in face-to-face consultations, this project aims at adding a mobile and wireless pan-tilt-zoom camera and a wireless communication badge to a multi-streams video/audio/data telecommunication platform developed by Vigilent Telesystems inc. The system will be able to provide multiple viewpoints and audio input sources (fixed and/or mobile) and vital signs (oximeter, glucometer). The video-centric user interface will automate some of the pan-tilt-zoom functions (such as people tracking and re positioning) of the mobile camera to allow the remote clinician to concentrate on the scene rather than on controlling the camera. Simple voice commands will be recognizable through the communication badge, allowing the hands of the patient to remain free. A cloud server will be implemented for data sharing and storing (including a small-scale health record). The project funds 2 Master's students, 1 coop trainee, 2 research professionals and 1 technician. The design of the system will be made in accordance with the specific needs and clinical practices, based on the experience acquired by the Telerehabilitation Research Chair at the Research Center for Aging Institute of the Université de Sherbrooke, validated with 5 patients and the Clinique de physiothérapie Physio Altas of Sherbrooke.

远程保健的定义是利用信息和通信技术（信通技术），将保健服务的提供范围扩大到远距离。家庭远程保健利用信通技术在病人家中提供保健服务。远程生命体征监测是一个常见的例子，也是一个有前景的市场，但缺乏面对面评估的丰富性，舒适性和微妙性，通常通过让患者去诊所或临床医生在家看患者来完成。为了进行更生动和互动的咨询，虚拟访问涉及使用视频和音频进行临床医生和患者之间的实时和远程咨询。这些咨询是通过固定工作站或移动的设备进行的，使用的是不适合临床医生实践的网络视频会议系统。为了使通常在面对面咨询中进行的互动具有移动性，该项目旨在为Vigilent Telesystems公司开发的多流视频/音频/数据电信平台增加一个移动的和无线摇摄-倾斜-变焦摄像机以及一个无线通信徽章。该系统将能够提供多个视点和音频输入源（固定和/或移动的）以及生命体征（血氧计、血糖仪）。以视频为中心的用户界面将自动执行移动的摄像机的一些平移-倾斜-缩放功能（例如人员跟踪和重新定位），以允许远程临床医生专注于场景而不是控制摄像机。简单的语音命令将通过通信徽章识别，使患者的手保持自由。将安装一个云服务器，用于数据共享和存储（包括小规模健康记录）。该项目资助2名硕士生，1名合作社实习生，2名研究人员和1名技术人员。该系统的设计将根据特定需求和临床实践，基于由Sherbrooke大学老龄研究所研究中心的远程康复研究主席获得的经验，经5名患者和Sherbrooke的Clinique de physiothérapie Physio Altas验证。