Authors:
Salvatore Cuomo
1
;
Pasquale De Michele
1
;
Francesco Piccialli
1
;
Antonella Olivo
2
and
Ennio Del Giudice
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
;
2
Fondazione Istituto Antoniano, Italy
Keyword(s):
Mobile Technologies, Healthcare Applications, Health Care Management, Health Information Systems.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Health
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
The Carolina Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs (CCITSN) is a well established assessment
curriculum-based for early intervention programs, where sequenced items data collection and analysis
allow for monitoring, incremental program change, and recognition of areas of relative strength and weakness
in children with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities. Unfortunately, this protocol, and the support developed
software C@rolin@, is concerned only with the medical aspects, which are basically recorded with a huge gap
of time intervals. Moreover, due to lack of funding in local health care facilities, the medical staff is not able to
care adequately the involved children that, as provided by this program, must perform most of the assessment
activities in their own homes, supported by parents that often are left alone during the period between two
medical visit. In order to reduce the gap between families and medical staff, this paper describes the design
and developm
ent of CarolApp, a mobile framework that allows, from one side, parents of enrolled children in
the Carolina Curriculum to capture situations by using collected photos and videos relating to the behaviors of
their children during the assessment period at home and to send these to the ad-hoc social network by means of
their mobile devices, and from the others side, medical staff to care adequately the patients in a “remote-way”,
analyzing and providing certified feedback, answers and if needed request an additional visit, by following the
progress of these children thanks to the received multimedia objects.
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