Empathetic Healthcare Services based on U-pillbox System

On the basis of advanced network and sensor technology, u-healthcare (ubiquitous healthcare) systems, which reshape the traditional healthcare systems and enhance e-healthcare (electronic healthcare) systems with awareness of a patient's situation, are the promising healthcare service provision systems. The empathetic personalized u-pillbox system is a heuristic example of u-healthcare systems that emphasizes humanistic healthcare service provision to the elderly. This paper briefly describes a u-pillbox system, which takes into consideration the characteristics of users, demonstrates a home server based system design, and shows the simulation of how the u-pillbox provides humanistic medication dispensing services. Finally it is addressed that how the system can be extended for potential widely applications such as further healthcare services to elderly users, their family members or other concerned parties.