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AbstractIn-home health care services based on the Internet-of-Things are promising to resolve the challenges caused by the ageing of population. But the existing research is rather scattered and shows lack of interoperability. In this article, a business-technology co-design methodology is proposed for cross-boundary integration of in-home health care devices and services. In this framework, three key elements of a solution (business model, device and service integration architecture and information system integration architecture) are organically integrated and aligned. In particular, a cooperative Health-IoT ecosystem is formulated, and information systems of all stakeholders are integrated in a cooperative health cloud as well as extended to patients' home through the in-home health care station (IHHS). Design principles of the IHHS includes the reuse of 3C platform, certification of the Health Extension, interoperability and extendibility, convenient and trusted software distribution, standardised and secured electrical health care record handling, effective service composition and efficient data fusion. These principles are applied to the design of an IHHS solution called iMedBox. Detailed device and service integration architecture and hardware and software architecture are presented and verified by an implemented prototype. The quantitative performance analysis and field trials have confirmed the feasibility of the proposed design methodology and solution.Keywords: Internet-of-Thingsin-home health care stationbusiness-technology co-designindustrial information integration engineeringdevice and service integrationbusiness ecosystemintelligent medicine boxenterprise information system Notes1. Many relevant concepts have been introduced to describe the future health care powered by ICT, such as pervasive health care (pHelath), mobile health care (mHealth), electrical health care (eHealth), telehealth and telemedicine. (Pawar et al. Citation2012). In this article, we do not intend to distinguish them pedantically and these concepts are looked as alternative expressions or subsets of the Health-IoT.2. More details of the ecosystem analysis have been introduced in a previous work (Pang et al. Citation2013a). Detailed business models based on an improved e3-Value modelling language have been developed and assessed by a real business case in another previous work (Pang Citation2012).3. To add any OS patch to an off-the-shelf tablet PC, the developers have to update (called 'root') the OS firmware. This operation is tricky and usually illegal.
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