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Context-aware caring system is capable of effectively improving quality of health care in hospitals. Most of current context-aware health care systems adopt only simple context information, which only provide limited supports to caregivers. In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a new situation-aware caring system for smart wards, which combines multiple contexts and infer patients’ ”situations”. This system is built and evaluated in a real-world hospital. We also report lessons learned, preliminary results of empirical deployment, and questionnaire surveys of caregivers.
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Huang, YC. et al. (2012). An Extensible Situation-Aware Caring System for Real-World Smart Wards. In: Donnelly, M., Paggetti, C., Nugent, C., Mokhtari, M. (eds) Impact Analysis of Solutions for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management. ICOST 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30779-9_24
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