1. Introduction
In order to maintain close supervision of the health conditions of chronically ill patients, long-term (chronic) care facilities provide accommodation and ”hotel-style” services to these patients, in addition to long-term monitoring of their health conditions [1].
The rise in the number of chronically ill people has resulted in an ever-increasing burden on long-term care facilities, to the point that the cost of maintaining these facilities has or in the near future will become unsustainable [2].
Leveraging the fact that not all chronically ill patients require accommodation and assistive services provided by long-term care facilities, some patients can be offloaded from long-term care facilities, and allowed to live in their own homes, where their health conditions would be remotely monitored. Recent studies [3] show that not only consumers are willing to pay for remote/mobile health monitoring, but also caregivers are showing more interest in using mobile technologies to provide convenient and agile health monitoring. Throughout this paper, caregivers refers to healthcare professionals, physicians, and any relative in concern of a patient.