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The present work examines the potential of smartphone usage for offering health services to elderly patients. In this paper we propose the design, the development and implementation of a telemedicine application. This application aims to improve the monitoring mode and increase patient adherence to the instructions assigned by the medical staff. It consists of three parts: the doctor’s application (Web Application), the patient’s application (Android Application) and the Web Server of the platform, where the database is stored necessary for the smooth operation of the platform. Also the Web Server hosts the doctor’s Web Application. The Web Application is based on web front-end technologies, providing the medical personnel with a variety of features and useful actions. These actions and capabilities are mainly relevant to the assignment of instructions to patients and the monitoring of their health progress. The Android Application has been implemented and validated for the Android-based mobile devices operating system and consists of a handy and user-friendly environment, equipped with the right tools so that the patient has the ability to update the system on the progress of his/her health by storing the appropriate measurements. Both applications also provide customization capabilities in regards to the patients’ and doctors’ profile.
The original version of this chapter was inadvertently published with an incorrect chapter pagination 1237–1242 and DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_238. The page range and the DOI has been re-assigned. The correct page range is 1243–1248 and the DOI is 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_239. The erratum to this chapter is available at DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_260
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Anastasiou, A., Giokas, K., Koutsouris, D. (2016). Monitoring of Compliance on an Individual Treatment Through Mobile Innovations. In: Kyriacou, E., Christofides, S., Pattichis, C. (eds) XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 57. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_239
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