As the population is aging, costs of medical services are rising quickly. Current healthcare models in Slovenia are based on intergenerational solidarity and are sustainable only when the share of actively working population is high enough. As a consequence, we are constantly looking for new healthcare models, which would solve this problem. Telemedicine, sheltered housing and remote patient monitoring are often discussed as possible solutions. In Europe, telemedicine is being deployed rather slowly, and Slovenia is no exception. The problem lies in the legislation, which does not provide funding for remote patient monitoring. The goal of the thesis is not to change the legislation, but to develop a plan for an information system which would enable deployment of telemedicine services across the country in the future, when there will be no legal drawbacks. Hopefully, the plan will help development companies with developing solutions for this area of expertise. With this goal in mind, we began with describing exisitng remote patient monitoring systems. We made a comparison of the systems, which served as the base for our plan. Finally, we have thoroughly described the plan, where we focused on the processes, architecture, funcionality and security that the information system will have to provide.
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