The document summarizes an open source healthcare assistance platform called Open Health Assistant. It was developed by 稼糸温乙看, a Spanish company specializing in open source solutions. The platform provides remote healthcare services using personalized monitoring for patients. It aims to improve quality of life for patients and reduce dependence on healthcare centers. The platform uses open source technologies and standardized components to offer modular services in a secure and scalable manner.
2. Table of Contents
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Mission........................................................................................4
Business Areas...........................................................................5
Open Health Assistant.................................................................6
Technology and Functions...........................................................7
Advantages.................................................................................8
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3. 稼糸温乙看 Open Health
稼糸温乙看
稼糸温乙看, pioneer company and a referee in th use of Open Source technologies since its
foundation in 1996, is one of the mainly providers of global services and solutions associated with
Information Technologies, and it is specialized in consulting, development and integration of
solutions.
Our mission is to contribute to the development of innovation and the optimization of processes
within companies and the public administration, implementing ICT solutions that are suited to their
real needs.
稼糸温乙看 employs over 60 employees with a continuous growth over 35% sustained for 4 years in
turnover.
稼糸温乙看 has emphasized an active R&D and technological innovation policy from the very
start. This consists of the search for, definition, and development of technological solutions and
innovative projects that allow its clients to move to the cutting edge of their possibilities.
The efforts invested in the R&D&I area in the last year demonstrate the importance of this aspect,
with the company devoting close to 30% of its professional assets, a percentage that puts it at the
head of the indices regarding Innovation in Spain.
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4. Open Health
Mission
Our mission is to contribute to the development of innovation and the optimization of processes
within companies and the public administration, implementing ICT solutions that are suited to their
real needs.
Our mission translates into real and tangible benefits for companies and institutions, including
flexibility of the implemented solutions, lower implementation costs with respect to exclusively
proprietary solutions, the reuse of third-party developments, easy expansion of functions,
scalability of systems to incorporate new
expansions, and adaptability to changing
organizations and environments, guaranteeing
increased functional and technological
performance with the best price-quality
relationship.
Our philosophy consists of providing a
comprehensive service with high added value
based on professional experience and solutions acquired through the participation in relevant
projects and alliances with leading companies in our business areas.
At 稼糸温乙看, we are actively committed to the strategic objectives of our Clients through our
services aimed exclusively at:
Innovation to serve business
The search for project financing
Evaluation of functional and technical options
Design and implementation of operational technical solutions
Security in terms of project functions, costs, and deadlines
Support and maintenance of implemented systems
Transfer of knowledge
Switchover management
Communication of results
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5. 稼糸温乙看 Open Health
Business Areas
稼糸温乙看 develops solutions divided into business areas or knowledge specializations, aimed at
individual projects for Administrative Modernization and Digital Cities:
Administrative Modernization Area Environmental management
Standardization of administrative Digital Content and Services Area
procedures and processes
Digital Citizens: city portals,
Electronic processing and telematic interactive TV, Citizen Services,
registration tourism portals
Management of dossiers PYME Digital: Open CCs.
Document management Health and Welfare Area
Electronic invoicing e-Health
Public procurement Social Welfare
Government interoperability Social Services Technical Office
Management
Electronic invitations to tender
Technology Engineering Area
Land Management Area:
Messaging and collaboration
IDEs
Identity management
Street maps / Points of interest
Wireless networks
Planning / Land Registries
City resource management
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6. Open Health
Open Health Assistant
The Open Health Assistant platform provides a set of remote social-healthcare service
solutions that are personalized for patients who require some type of personalized monitoring or
help, both at and away from the home.
Open Health Assistant helps in the daily lives
of people with chronic care needs, such as
assisted living for elderly or dependent
persons, facilitating mobile assistance services
that cut down on visits to hospitals and doctor
house calls, as well as assistance provided by
emergency services, minimizing travel and the
cost of public healthcare services.
It also provides services that facilitate remote
assistance of those people who are
responsible for caring for a patient, whether that
be a family member, caregiver, or social worker.
The immediate result is an increase in the quality of life of patients and a decrease in dependence
on healthcare centers and on family members or caregivers.
Open Health Assistant is based on an R&D project financed by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism,
and Trade (MITandT).
Open Health Assistant has been developed using standard systems and open architectures that
are widely used and that promote:
A technological platform that offers a catalog of useful services for the entire Patient
tracking environment: Patient, Family Members, Caregivers, Doctors.
Multichannel access to services, either through web portals, DTT, mobile platforms, etc.
Integration between different biomedical and home-automation devices.
Interoperability between different Health Care systems, compliance with communication
standards.
Modular: the client uses what it needs and integrates it into its systems
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Technology and Functions
In terms of its technology, Open Health Assistant is based on recognized Open Source
components:
Developed in Java compatible with JEE 5 specifications
Services Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Security based on WS-Security SSL
Scalable at all levels: application server, database,
Components with access API that allows easy integration with other services.
Open Health Assistant was developed entirely using open-source technologies with no licensing
costs, and is made up of a set of services and modules that are also distributed under this type of
license, which means that public institutions do not incur any additional costs.
The platform offers a set of personalized remote service solutions. Specifically, the Open Health
Assistant includes the following functions:
Patients who require health care treatments who do not require hospital stays.
Patients convalescing from medical or surgical processes
Patients with chronic illnesses 24 hours a day
Integration with multiple biomedical sensors for online monitoring of patients. The devices
that are managed include: blood pressure meters, electronic pillboxes, heart-rate monitors,
scales, etc.
Integration with the Customized Assistance Protocols defined by the patients Care
Supervisor, medial specialist, Home-care doctor, Mutual Healthcare Benefit Society.
Integration with Personalized Care Protocols defined at the Healthcare Center, reference
hospital, insurance company, Mutual Healthcare Benefit Society.
Calendar to register all of the home care actions, allowing the multidisciplinary team to
monitor all of the directives to be followed.
Management of reminders or alarms, using mobile devices to display different calendars
for: medication guidelines, doctor's appointments, vaccinations, location of centers,
addresses of interest.
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8. Open Health
Remote clinical history. Recording of the Clinical History of the home care. The
multidisciplinary team has access to the patient's vital signs that have been monitored via
mobile with biomedical sensors.
Access to the Healthcare DB based on diagnostic guidelines, patient symptoms, health
states, etc.
Access to information on points of interest, regarding pharmacies, social service centers,
etc.
Patient location via GPS.
Integration with General Patient Information Systems.
Tracking of Hospital Care delivered at home, mobile tracking of care, mobile/web for
medication.
Attention of the healthcare team through process monitoring
Advantages
For Government:
Increases productivity and reduced costs in public health care services
Improved mobility services reducing visits to health care centers
Automatic systems or assistance doctors/operators give orders to patients
Facilitates the intensive tracking of information regarding the status and location of patients
Decreases the degree of patient dependence
For the Patient:
Geo-referencing of healthcare-related points of interest
Automation of doctors appointments
Improved medical treatments
Minimizes travel to hospitals
Improves the quality and quantity of medical information given to patients
Social integration of patients
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