Application of Home Care Smartphone Applications in Stroke Patients (review) / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

@#The stroke patients at home have many problems, such as knowledge, medication, monitoring and rehabilitation, which results in poor rehabilitation effect, and the patients need home care urgently. Smartphone applications can provide disease knowledge, health monitoring, drugs reminder, rehabilitation guide and system management, as well as social activities and emergency treatment strategy supplying, which can provide a new home care method for stroke patients. However, there are also many deficiencies, such as simple function design, lack of medical institutions participation in the design, lack of authoritative quality evaluation tool, limitations in users and potential safety hazard.