Citizen Centered Health and Lifestyle Management via Interactive TV: The PANACEIA-ITV Health System

摘要

In the context of an IST European project with acronym PANACEIA-ITV, a home care service provision system is described based on interactive TV technology. The purpose of PANACEIA-ITV is to facilitate essential lifestyle changes and to promote compliance with scientifically sound self-care recommendations, through the application of interactive digital television for family health maintenance. The means to achieve these goals are based on technological, health services and business models. PANACEIA-ITV is looking for communication of monitoring micro-devices with I-TV set-top-boxes using infrared technology, and embodiment of analogous H/W and S/W in the I-TV set-top-boxes. Intelligent agents are used to regulate data flow, and user queries as well as service provisions from and to the household through the satellite digital platform, through portals and through filtering and decision support mechanisms using predominantly the Active Service Provision (ASP) model. Moreover, interactive digital TV services are developed for the delivery of health care in the home care environment.