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The aging problem has become a global issue, which is driving an increasing demand for long-term care services for the elderly. Care planning, as an essential support to ensure a high standard of safe and responsive care, is therefore drawing attention from academia and health care providers. To handle the increasing care service demand and enhance the care service quality, a support model in care planning is needed to handle episodic visits, to integrate the care plan with all of the relevant data, and to allow all stakeholders to view and contribute to. In this study, the above described supporting model is formulated through a blockchain-internet of things (BIoT) based care planning analytics model (BCPAM). Embedding blockchain into IoT allows collecting patient's data in real time and decentralizing such data in the nursing home network to achieve effective care planning. In addition, such information is further utilized for healthcare analysis to predict the long-term needs of the elderly. |
