ABSTRACT
The close network between innovative technology suppliers, extensive assistance and potential customers in most of European countries, provides a structural support for new lines of products with high added value and socio-economic impact in health care systems. The challenge for ICT is how to provide a support for Telemedicine and m-services in larger environments, with a special attention to autonomous persons which are living far from a health center (gate-keeping systems. Most of already available products are focused towards emergencies management. Thus, it is necessary to try of developing active real-time monitoring devices and local mobile services focused towards preventive surveillance in Telemedicine. The monitoring is based in minimally intrusive sensors able of early detecting risk situations, in order to minimize the response time to the intervention from Health Care systems. In this way, we hope to improve the quality of life and independence of risk patients or elderly persons which have still some mobility. An additional challenge is the design and implementation of modular solutions based in open technologies and standard devices will allow a cost reduction.
