A trial design of e-healthcare management scheme with IC-based student ID card, automatic health examination system and campus information network

Abstract

A Health Education Support System has been being developed for Students and university staffs of Kagawa University. The system includes an IC card reader(writer), several types of physical measuring devices (height meter, weight meter, blood pressure monitor, etc. for health examination), a special-purpose PC, distributed information servers and campus network environment. We have designed our prototype of a Health Education Support System as follows; Students and/or university staffs can utilize the above system for their health education and/or healthcare whenever they want anywhere in university. They can use IC-based ID cards for user authentication, operate the physical measuring devices very much simply, and maintain their physical data periodically. Measured data can be obtained at any point of university by means of measuring devices connected with the system on-line, transferred through campus network environment, and finally cumulated into a specific database of secured information servers. We have carried out some experiments to design our system and checked behaviour of each subsystem in order to evaluate whether such a system satisfy our requirements to build facilities to support health education described above. In this paper, we will introduce our design concepts of a Health Education Support System, illustrate some experimental results and discuss perspective problems as our summaries. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.