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Home monitoring is a promising technology to deal with the increasing amount of chronically ill patients while ensuring quality of medical care. Most systems available today depend on a high degree of interaction between the user and the device. Especially for people relying on advanced levels of care, this scheme is impracticable. In this paper we are presenting an “intelligent toilet” performing an extensive health check while being as simple to use as a conventional toilet. Main focus of the system is to support the treatment of diabetes and chronic heart failure, but additional applications are possible.
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Schlebusch, T., Leonhardt, S. (2011). Intelligent Toilet System for Health Screening. In: Hsu, CH., Yang, L.T., Ma, J., Zhu, C. (eds) Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. UIC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23641-9_14
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