Table 1.
Summary of each system and domain.
| System Domain | Description | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing Care | NFC system for nursing care at hospitals | Reduce burden of nurses in managing patient records | Nurses require a previous knowledge of the system |
| Nursing Training | NFC system to improve training of nurses | Help nursing students to simulate clinical tasks using new technologies | Students require a previous knowledge of the system and clinical procedures |
| Alzheimer caregivers’ support | NFC system to help caregivers at Alzheimer’s day center | Help caregivers to manage tasks, incidences and reminders at a day center | Incidences should be manually registered by caregivers according a limited list. |
| Mobile prescriptions | System based on NFC and desktop applications to manage medications and prescriptions | Automate the process of requesting medicines from home, in elderly people. | Current social services do not offer mechanisms to take home medicines (at least in Spain) |
| Vital signs multi-monitoring | Framework to help in developing of mobile apps focused on monitoring of vital signs | Facilitate the generation of mobile apps for healthcare following several processes | Framework should be known in detail to develop useful apps |
| Childhood Obesity Treatment | NFC system to monitor diet and physical exercise by parents of children with overweight problems | Acquire information from different domains to analyze issues based on personalized profiles | Food and meals should be inserted manually by parents to monitor this aspect |
| Rehabilitation | Mobile system to enhance the monitoring of rehabilitation tasks at home | Provide a mobile tool to continue with rehabilitation tasks at home based on remote clinical support | This tool depends on internet connection for a real-time monitoring and iPhone. It is only useful as a clinical complement |
| Frailty | Mobile system to support clinicians to make a diagnosis based on frailty index (in seniors) | Provide a relative frailty index to facilitate diagnostics considering all clinical domains | Functional domain is not analyzed exhaustively (same importance than the rest of domains) |
| Gait Analysis | System based on wearable sensors to analyze gait of elderly people in a quantitative way, in a nursing home | Accuracy of the system and ease of communication with other devices/apps | Wearable sensor should be placed in the correct position to avoid data variability |