Configuration of the plausible information system to support remote monitoring for home care

Abstract

April 2018, Japanese Government listed several telemedicine service into the list of medical fee points of Japanese Health Insurance system. At that moment, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare categorized telemedicine in to three sub-categories, (1) Tele-radiology or Tele-pathology, (2) Virtual doctor visit over the Internet, and (3) Remote Monitoring. While (1) and (2) are conventional telemedicine based-on multimedia communication, (3) is new telemedicine derived by the home care medical devices with network connectivity. Under current trend of clinical medicine which is changing from cure at hospital to care at home, the remote monitoring and the supporting technologies become important. In this lecture, I will introduce the guideline of information system to support remote respiratory management and discuss the plausible approaches of research and development for care with artificial organ at home.