Smart home technology can also aid in disease prevention—for example, providing inconspicuous memory aids, such as medication reminders, or refrigerators that can evaluate an inventory of contents and provide suggestions for menus, healthy choices, and a list of groceries that need to be purchased. Vibrating bracelets or audible prompters can remind people when to eat or when to go to the bathroom, and other wrist devices monitor pulse rates and skin temperature. Sensors and wireless devices are being used in homes to monitor individuals’ vital signs and whether medication has been taken, with this information sent wirelessly, through a sensor in the home or on the individual to the doctor or to family members—which is an added benefit for people who are homebound, are living in more remote rural areas, or are without immediate access to healthcare.

Several publications were identified about devices targeting:

To analyze and to use all these data, we can use the artificial intelligence and in particular the area of decision support systems (DSS) and intelligent DSS (IDSS) to focus on developing interactive software that can analyze data including specific domain knowledge and automatic reasoning capabilities and provide answers to the relevant decisional questions from the users, thus enhancing a person or group to make better decisions [11]. Creative use of information technologies should facilitate the organization, presentation, and integration of this information to obtain individualized and systematic clinical decisions, predicated on individual patient’s priorities [12]. The capability to provide a distance-based service is expected to eliminate barriers (e.g., logistical, geographical, administrative, etc.) that are currently hindering a stronger penetration of “traditional” hospitalized rehabilitation services (Fig. 19.2).

The use of ICT and domotics in general is changing the paradigm, extending with no limit the coverage area, and therefore allowing for a strong economy of scale. One of the barriers to the diffusion of e-Health is the digital divide, as the difficulty/inability of access to the network (in this case we talk about the digital divide “absolute”) as well as a lack of basic knowledge enabling the use of digital technologies. The resources and satellite telecommunication services allow filling in the gaps and delays in the spread of broadband: on the one hand, they are the only possible solution to the digital divide absolute (pure scenery satellite) and, on the other hand, they can increase the quality of telecommunications, where digital terrestrial service is already available (hybrid terrestrial and satellite scenario) [10] (Fig. 19.3).