Expert Systems and Home-based Telehealth:
Exploring a role for MCRDR in enhancing diagnostics
Soyeon Caren Han
1
, Luke Mirowski
1
, Seung-Hwan Jeon
2
, Gang-Soo Lee
3
,
Byeong Ho Kang
1
, Paul Turner
1
1
School of Computing and Information System,
University of Tasmania,
Hobart, Australia
{Soyeon.Han, Luke.Mirowski, Byeong.Kang, Paul.Turner} @utas.edu.au
2
Department of German Literature & Language,
University Hannam,
Daejeon, Republic of Korea
{jeoninoldenburg}@daum.net
3
Department of Computer Engineering,
University Hannam,
Daejeon, Republic of Korea
{gslee}@hnu.kr
Abstract. Home-based telehealth services hold significant potential for
integrating patient biological sensor data to support health management. At the
same time, the deployment of telehealth into the home highlights the need for
improved ways to collate, classify and dynamically interpret data safely and
effectively. In relation to individual patients questions are posed as to how to
most effectively communicate this data to them to support optimal health
behaviour. For clinicians working at a distance, the huge amounts of data
generated on all their home-based patients pose questions on how best to
intelligently filter, analyse and interpret this data to make diagnoses and
respond to changes in patient conditions. The paper reviews previous research
work on expert systems in healthcare, in particular reviewing the capabilities of
the expert system maintenance technology, Multiple Classification Ripple
Down Rules, in healthcare. The paper also describes a home-based telehealth
device, called MediStation that is being deployed in Korean homes to consider
how MCRDR could enhance the decision-making for this device.
Keywords: eHealth, medical expert systems, MCRDR, telehealth
1 Introduction
Ubiquitous Healthcare [1] is the one of the most active research field. Typically
uHealth applications fulfill two major functions. Firstly, “patient monitoring” through
the use of biosensors and advanced sensor network technologies. Secondly,
supporting the personalization of remote medical services, by providing patients with
diagnosis and treatment directly rather than through physical consultation with a
clinician. It is anticipated that these two functions will support patients to have more
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