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Session 5: Services and implementation-related issues

S5.1 Implementation of tele-rehabilitation system combined with video call center.*
Kotaro Suzuki; Yoshitoshi Murata (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)

Japan’s low birthrate and rapidly aging population are causing medical expenses to take up ever more
of the national budget and leading to a shortage of young medical professionals. As a result,
rehabilitation therapy is being shifted from hospital-care to home-care. Several other countries will also
face the same situation in the near future. Thus, we propose a tele-rehabilitation system combined with
a video call center to make up for the shortage of rehabilitation therapy done by visiting
physiotherapists. A video call center operator coaches a patient instead of a physiotherapist, and a
physiotherapist supervises multiple operators. The system focuses on cerebrovascular patients who
have a home-visit rehabilitation or an outpatient one and uses Microsoft KINECT to measure strain of
the upper body. In this paper, implementation of this system is mainly described.

S5.2 Intricacies of implementing an ITU-T X.1303 cross-agency situational-awareness platform in
Maldives, Myanmar, and the Philippines.*
Biplov Bhandari; Angga Bayu Marthafifsa; Manzul Kumar Hazarika (Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand); Francis Boon; Nuwan Waidyanatha; Lutz Frommberger (Sahana Software Foundation,
USA)

Maldives, Myanmar, and the Philippines are vulnerable to natural disasters. Sendai Framework of
Action calls for risk reduction by implementing early warning systems. A prevailing challenge is
for authorities to coordinate warnings across disparate communication systems and autonomous
organizations. Cross-Agency Situational-Awareness platforms and the ITU-T X.1303 Common
Alerting Protocol (CAP) interoperable data standards presents themselves as solution for diluting
the inter-agency rivalries and interconnection disparities. The Sahana Alerting and Messaging
Broker (SAMBRO) was designed to overcome these issues by providing a Common Operating
Picture and a platform for all Stakeholders to share early warnings. To that end, the CAP-on-a-
MAP project is implementing SAMBRO and the CAP standard along with the policies and
procedures in the Maldives, Myanmar and Philippines. The project is applying an agile
development methodology with a design, build, test, and redesign strategy for implementing the
cross-agency situational-awareness and warning system in the respective countries. This paper
discusses the country context implementation challenges and discusses strategies fostered through
the introduction of the CAP content standard for warning system designers to consider for
overcoming similar challenges.

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