ICT for Ageing: Event-Driven SOA Approach for Distant Diabetes Management System

Abstract

The problem of population ageing became very important for the recent decades especially for developed countries. Better quality of life together with improvements in medical care allows people to live longer, however the population ageing brings severe social and economic impacts such as increased demand for medical care, high risk of chronic disease, growing pensions and medicine spends. ICT is seen now as an innovative way of solving some of these problems. Recent concepts of telecare, telemedicine and independent living brought the opportunities for ageing problems resolutions. Diverse service providers and solution developers work separately on their own products while there is huge opportunity of combining them together using SOA. In this article the diabetes case is examined and the event-driven service oriented approach is used to create the architecture of information system supporting distant health management. Together with detailed architecture description and its advantages, ICT for ageing market overview and its’ key barriers are given in this paper.