A Multimedia Information System for Home Health-Care Support

  • Authors:
  • Michelle Y. Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE MultiMedia
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The author describes Guardian, a knowledge based home health-care support system in the domain of childhood leukaemia. Guardian is part of a joint project between IBM Research and the New England Medical Center for building a prototype home-care system for children with leukaemia. The prototype system consists of a set of applications, including consultation and symptoms analysis, procedure guidance, emotional support, and communications, implemented in Smalltalk/OS2. This article focuses on the knowledge-based system, which helps parents better understand the symptoms or problems their child is experiencing and provides them with relevant therapeutic information