Alerts for remote health monitoring using online social media platforms

Khorakhun, Chonlatee; Bhatti, Saleem N.

doi:10.1109/healthcom.2013.6720662

“…In terms of devices, up to February 2014, the mobile phone market in 2013 is 39.2% growth over 2012, with the smartphone # This paper includes works previously published by the authors in [1] and [2] * Corresponding author. Email: ck46@st-andrews.ac.uk 1 http://www.itu.int '... the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies ...' shipments being the largest area of growth -surpassed 1 billion units for the first time 2 . mHealth -the use of mobile technologies and services for healthcare -enables pervasive and personal healthcare services, as part of a larger eHealth strategy [4].…”

Section: The Growing Need For Mhealth Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remote health monitoring using online social media systems

Khorakhun

¹

,

Bhatti

²

2013

6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC)

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Remote monitoring is an essential part of future mHealth systems for the delivery of personal and pervasive healthcare, especially to allow the collection of personal bio-data outside clinical environments. Yet, by its very nature, it presents considerable challenges: it will be a highly distributed task, requiring collection of bio-data for a myriad of cources, to be marshalled at the clinical site via secure communication channels. To address these challenges, we propose the use of an online social media platform (OSMP) as a key component of a near-future remote health monitoring system. By exploiting existing infrastructure, initial costs can be reduced, at the same time as allowing fast and flexible application development. An OSMP would have user benefits also: patients and healthcare professionals can be presented with familiar interfaces, while application developers can work with a set of technologies that are widely used and well-known. Internet-based access also helps to provide wide-ranging connectivity for mobile applications. Additionally, the use of a social media context allows existing social interactions within the healthcare regime to be modelled within a carer network, working in harmony with, and providing support for, existing relationships and interactions between patients and healthcare professionals. We focus on the use of an OSMP to enable two primitive functions which we consider essential for mHealth, and on which larger personal healthcare services could be built: remote health monitoring of personal bio-data, and an alert system for asynchronous notifications. We analyse the general requirements in a carer network for these two primitive functions, in terms of four different viewpoints within the carer network: the patient, the doctor in charge, a professional carer, and a family member (or friend) of the patient. We discuss the suitability of OSMPs in terms of functionality, performance, security & privacy, as well as the potential for cost reduction.

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“…Figures for 2013 from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) 1 [3] estimate that the number of mobile subscriptions (6.8B) is approaching the global population (7.1B), with penetration rates of 96% overall, as high as 89% even in developing countries and over 100% in developed countries (people have multiple phone services). In terms of devices, up to February 2014, the mobile phone market in 2013 is 39.2% growth over 2012, with the smartphone # This paper includes works previously published by the authors in [1] and [2] * Corresponding author. Email: ck46@st-andrews.ac.uk 1 http://www.itu.int '... the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies ... ' shipments being the largest area of growth -surpassed 1 billion units for the first time 2 .…”

Section: The Growing Need For Mhealth Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In terms of devices, up to February 2014, the mobile phone market in 2013 is 39.2% growth over 2012, with the smartphone # This paper includes works previously published by the authors in [1] and [2] * Corresponding author. Email: ck46@st-andrews.ac.uk 1 http://www.itu.int '... the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies ... ' shipments being the largest area of growth -surpassed 1 billion units for the first time 2 .…”

Section: The Growing Need For Mhealth Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is of interest to developed regions of the world to reduce healthcare costs, and it is of interest to developing regions of the world to enable healthcare reach to its citizens, especially in remote areas. Two key primitive functions in such a scenario are remote monitoring and the use especially for 2 From a clinical point of view, the use of remote monitoring may in some cases yield better quality biodata than the 'snapshot' monitoring that takes place within a clinical site. Remote monitoring could enable a longer timescale and a finer granularity of bio-data monitoring [12].…”

Section: The Growing Need For Mhealth Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our examples [1,2] After describing background in pervasive monitoring in Section 2, requirements and challenges in mHealth systems are provided in Section 3. The details of our design for remote monitoring and remote alerts are given in Section 4 and Section 5, respectively.…”

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