A mobile software for health professionals to monitor remote patients

Abstract

There is a lack of timely access to necessary healthcare in remote areas, especially in India. This paper addresses the availability of quality healthcare, by introducing wireless technology to monitor patients, in remote areas. A reliable system to continuously monitor the patients in the remote areas has been developed, this software suite consists of two mobile software platforms. The first mobile software platform uses wearable wireless sensors to collect a Patient's ECG and Blood Pressure based on the patient's health condition. This sensed data is transmitted to the Patient's mobile phone where the first level of analysis is performed and an emergency warning may be indicated. If the patient's parameters are at a certain level a message is sent immediately to the Health Professional's mobile phone. The health data is also transmitted it to a central server for storage and further processing. This database can be of great value to health researchers. The second mobile software platform enables health professionals to view patient's health reports on their mobile phones from the central database. The health professional can also assign the risk levels of each patient, from the health professional's mobile phone. Both platforms communicate with the central database using a web server. This research also considers power optimization in the patient's mobile.

Remote patient monitoring: a comprehensive study

“…An analysis of effectiveness of cardiac implantable electronic devices is given in Ricci et al (2013). ECG and Blood pressure monitoring system given in Ramesh et al (2012) has an algorithm based on five states where the mobile device can be of different states depending on its charge level. Thus this has energy optimization feature where even the data storage will be done while saving energy.…”

Privacy-Preserving Electrocardiogram Monitoring for Intelligent Arrhythmia Detection

“…Since the 1970s, researchers worldwide have been developing diagnostic systems that enable patients to make ECG recordings at home and transfer data to a cardiologist [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. Research regarding remote ECG monitoring systems continues today, with smartphones being employed.…”

“…Recent advances in sensing technology and smart devices, which are the most important devices facilitating cyber-physical systems, have drastically altered the shape of the current healthcare environment, while presenting numerous opportunities and challenges in patient monitoring and assistance. This novel paradigm enables patients to monitor their physical conditions using smart devices [ 1 ], which has been particularly useful for chronic diseases that can become life threatening, such as high blood pressure, hypernatremia and various heart diseases that are common globally [ 2 ]. By monitoring a chronic disease, a patient can deal with this transformation at an early stage.…”

“…Several successful ECG monitoring systems have been developed [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. These systems possess many advantages, such as allowing for ambulatory patient care, resulting in safer and more affordable healthcare.…”

Context-aware IPv6 Flow Mobility for Multi-sensor Based Mobile Patient Monitoring and Tele-consultation

“…K. Wac et al [17] proposed a tele-monitoring and tele-treatment system, which allows the incorporation of different medical sensors via wireless connection, and live transmission of the measured vital signs to healthcare providers. Also authors of [18] designed and developed two mobile software platform. The first one collects the patient's ECG and blood pressure data and sends the measured value to the mobile phone of patient where the fist level analysis is performed and to a central server as well.…”