6. Outlook and thoughts for the future

Whether micro- or nano-technology (the micro still has a great future, for the reasons mentioned above), home monitoring could be developed along three lines:

temporality ;
complexity ;
the patrimonial nature of the healthcare system, centered around the elderly.

6.1 Primordial time

The course of life can be apprehended:

Hippocratic chronology (recording medical and social data at given ages, dictated by epidemiology);
in Herophilus' kairotic mode (a succession of "kairos", individual opportune moments (unfavorable or favorable), when the organism...

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(1) - DEMONGEOT (J.) - Recent advances in e-health and perspectives. - Dans Studia Informatica Universalis, 11, pp. 1-17 (2013).
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AFNOR: NF C 15-100-X standards for home alarm systems. They lay down rules for the design, installation and maintenance of home alarm systems.

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