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Abstract
The percentage of the aging population is growing at a steady rate and is now becoming one of the many problems our society faces today. With the large aging population, our lack of medical care and attention for the aging elders became more apparent. Telemedicine is a research program which combines the modern communication network with sensor detection system that allows caretakers to spot the smallest changes and symptoms in the patients at private locations thus reducing the capitalized cost and resource of the government’s healthcare system. According to the Industral Economics & knowledge Center (IEK)’s research on the market of the Telemedicine, in 2004 alone, Telemedicine has USD 44 thousand million dollars of market and it is estimated to reach USD 76 thousand million dollars in year 2010. With this rapid increase of market, it is without a doubt that Telemedicine has a bright future creating more profit when it is fully developed.
This iNPD method which this paper utilizes is a program designed by the Chang-Gang University Technology & Research Development Unit focusing on the topic of: “Patient of Metabolic Syndome’s at-home Self-Monitoring Healthcare System”, which specifically targets the patients with Metabolic Syndrome’s ability to self-monitor their health conditions. The focus is to create a business model that can utilize the physical data patients provided combining with the health and management program to best fit patients’ needs.
The “Metabolic Syndrome Patients’ at-home Self-Monitoring Healthcare System” is still a new model in the market. Through the iNPD design program that was introduced in class, we can incorporate the different expertise in different fields (medicinal, technological, design and promotional) to help us analyze the SET thus setting the Self-Monitoring System at the most suitable orientation with the right targeting group, helping the System to reach its fullest potential.
With the development of this System, it is with hope that it can further generate a system that best suit our nation’s metabolic syndrome patients to monitor their health individually through an easy and convenient computer program that even the aging elders can operate without trouble. Patients can increase their quality of life when they can monitor their health conditions and can further reduce the burden of medical expenses.
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