Health Community 4.0: An Innovative Multidisciplinary Solution for Tailored Healthcare Assistance Management

Sensors (Basel). 2024 Sep 19;24(18):6059. doi: 10.3390/s24186059.

Abstract

This paper presents a co-designed solution aimed at improving community healthcare assistance management. To enhance patients' self-awareness of their health status, encouraging active participation in care process, and to support nurses in delivering patient-centered care, we have developed an innovative platform with a highly customized app. This platform was designed using a multi-disciplinary, bottom-up approach. Patient data collection and processing facilitate the automation of care timeline planning, based on real-time patients' needs and the available resources. To achieve this goal, different components have been considered: real-time health data collection and processing, patient care planning, decision support for nurses, secure communication for data transmission, and user-friendly interfaces to ensure easy access to platform functionalities.

Keywords: Internet of Things; health monitoring; healthcare; information and communication technologies; nursing; patients’ management.

MeSH terms

  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Humans
  • Mobile Applications
  • Patient-Centered Care*
  • Telemedicine
  • User-Computer Interface