Developing a Ubiquitous Health Management System with Healthy Diet Control for Metabolic Syndrome Healthcare in Taiwan

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure – by Benjamin Franklin.” Many prior studies for healthcare encouraged the self-health management programs of chronic diseases to improve health status of patients and reduce financial cost of hospitalization [1–3]. Those programs educated the patients in prevention knowledge and healthcare skills of perceived illness for diet control, medication care, behavior measurement, risk assessment, etc. [4]. They achieved the ubiquitous health management system (UHMS), which involves electronic, internet, or mobile interface in a computerized arc hitecture, for the patients to manage their health information everywhere by themselves from day to day [5–7].

Source: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine - March 17, 2017 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Yao-Chiang Kan, Kai-Hong Chen, Hsueh-Chun Lin Source Type: research