Tele-Health System
- Technological fields
- Information Sharing Platform Technologies
- Keyword
- Tele-health counseling
- EHR/PHR
- Continua
- Laboratory organization
- NTT Service Integration Laboratories
Overview
The Tele-health System was designed according to the guidelines of the Continua Health Alliance*, a global industry standards body seeking to promote easy and convenient health management and efficient tele-health counseling with healthcare professionals and it has information sharing and interoperability features that go beyond the design guidelines. Our system enables the exchange of measurements using Continua-certified equipment like blood-pressure monitors, weight scales, etc., as well as automatic data uploads and data exchanges between health service providers for the purpose of data migration. NTT will create safe, reliable and more versatile health ICT services by taking advantage of the experience gained with this system.
Features
- Use of Continua Design Guidelines and functions for improving interoperability
among health services to promote the collection, storage, and global use of data.
- Specification and implementation of items not included in the Guidelines.
- Continua WAN-IF supported: Data upload gateway, etc.
- Continua HRN-IF supported: data exchange among health services.
- Tele-health counseling with doctors through video phones.
- Total use of personal medical and health information made possible by connecting the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Platform that enables medical information to be exchanged among healthcare providers including hospitals, clinics and pharmacies, etc., with a Personal Health Record (PHR) Platform that enable health information like weight and blood pressure to be collected and exchanged at home etc.
Application scenarios
- Easy and useful daily health data management enabled by collecting weight, blood pressure, and exercise data.
- Efficient health data collection and uploading to support home healthcare for the elderly.
- Health management at disaster refuges and temporary housing, and tele-health counseling over NTT FLET’S phones.
- * Continua Health Alliance: a global association companies in the healthcare industry for promoting digitization and unification of communication standards relating to healthcare equipment.
