本論文主要設計了一個遠距看護系統，提供病人有遠端照護的能力。現代社會中，人口結構的老化致使需要照護的老年人比例增多，以往的照護方式不僅給醫病雙方都帶來不便，更消耗社會成本。藉由本系統的開發，可為醫病雙方都帶來便利的醫療照護方式，也希望能節省社會成本。
本系統希望能照護需要長期追蹤生理健康狀況的病患，故本系統可以讓病人在遠端量測生理訊號後，自動上傳到醫院的伺服器來。醫生可藉由調閱病患的生理訊號來得知生理狀況。
本系統的特色在於能讓醫生跟病人間即時的生理訊號上傳跟影音的即時交談，已達成可即時的醫療診斷。以及可讓病人藉由可攜式裝置來達成可行動看護的便利。

This thesis designs and implements a telecare system for providing medical server for remote patients. In modern social, the elder’s population is growing higher and higher. So the elders needed medical cares are more and more. We want to provide so many patients convenient medical cares and reduce the social cost.
This system focuses on patients that need to be monitored their health condition in long term. So this system can let patient measure their physiological signals at remote and transfer the data to the server. Then doctors can monitor patients’ health condition by reading the data in the server.
The advantages of our system are real time communication between doctor and patients and let patients can have mobile ability by carrying portable devices.

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