The Study of the Telecare and Online Consultation System

• Main Authors: Ting-Wei Lin, 林廷威
• Other Authors: Chin-Hsing Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63jq63

碩士 === 中臺科技大學 === 醫護管理研究所 === 96 === Due to the change of population structure, the proportion of the older citizen is increasing. This phenomenon leads to a rise in population of chronic patients and demands of health care services. The high technology is used in creating humanized life. Because of the promotion of healthcare quality concept and the vigorous development of technology, such that a home care services system can be implemented. This also causes a chronic patient to break away from the wired bond to achieve ubiquitous care. This study develops a “Telecare and Online Consultation System”. The system consists of the ZigBee wireless sensor and the database server to accomplish the physiological parameters monitoring and online consultation. The system is Web-Based and consists of Register Subsystem, Online Consultation Subsystem, Enquire Subsystem and Management Subsystem. The medical practitioner can monitor patient’s physiological parameters by Enquire Subsystem. The medical practitioner can also set normal boundary of the physiological parameters and when the parameters present anomaly the subsystem will give an alarm to care worker as soon as possible. The chronic can register by Register Subsystem and use Online Consultation Subsystem to ask doctor questions. We hope the system will reduce the chronic patient’s traffic time and energy. Besides, the chronic patient can obtain a long-term healthcare service by the system to improve and control patient’s condition. After the system is accomplished, We adapted the technology acceptance model (TAM) to develop the systematic evaluation framework and accordingly designed the questionnaire. We use the medical practitioner and public to find out the influencing factors of users acceptance of the system. The evaluation shows: (1)medical practitioner’s “How often do you use computer?” and public’s “Do you have a computer with Internet access in the home?” have significant influence on the ”Perceived Usefulness”. (2)medical practitioner’s “How often do you use computer?” , ”the correlation between background and technology” and public’s “How often do you use computer?” , ”the correlation between background and technology” , “Age” , “Educational level” , “How many times do you use Internet a week?” , “How long have you used Internet?” have significant influence on the “Perceived Ease of Use” . (3)“Perceived Usefulness” , “Perceived Ease of Use” and “Attitude toward using” show significant positive correlation. (4)“Perceived Usefulness” , “Attitude toward using” and “Behavioral Intention to Use” show highly positive correlation.