|
As our modern society approaches to ageing and low birth rate, the resident health care model became critical for our future. Due to the rapid progress of this society, knowledge economy has been treated as an important way to make a living. Soaring prices and endless pressure of competition leads to the disruptive change of modern family structures, which later reflects the increasing number of nuclear families who have dwindled their time to spend with families. Since most of the family members must go to school and go to work, if the majority of the elder population cannot be provide with proper residential care facilities, they will have to face the threat of daily basis and safety alone.
Through the wisdom of physiological measuring equipment, communication terminals with cloud services, and the not only linked but utilized medical services, the immediacy and convenience of using information and communication technology(ICT) shows its advantages. By building up a system that can remotely access a senior’s medical history and provide healthcare management at the same time, a viable medical modes of interactive services is integrated. Due to the experience in the marketing of physiological monitoring medical devices, the author has found the limitation of lack of professionalism and expansion in medical information and imaging system. The authors looks forward to the time when case companies can integrate both industries, highly specialized medical industry and medical ICT industry, also the possibility to innovate and construct a full range of medical communications services with healthcare management. Moreover, the author has held expectations on her own experience and the usage of integrated model to examine the possible mode of medical ICT innovation and integration. Furthermore, the author hopes to theorize and practice it by sorting contexts and classification study, whereas to analyze its resource base on advantages and strategic alliance analysis. After being able to integrate a new business model, it could be plausible to construct a specialized medical cloud service model, which can combine its own techniques and resources to create a profitable business model that allows SME’s to seize the popularity of cloud information, thus successfully transformed their IT services.
Keyword: Cloud Service, Senior citizen, Resident Care, Innovative Services, ICT, Resource-based Theory, Strategic Alliances, Business Model Design
|