An Integrated mHealth Solution for Enhancing Patients’ Health Online

Abstract

Abstract-Lack of time or economic difficulties prevent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients from communicating with their physicians, thus inducing exacerbation of their chronic condition and possible hospitalization. In this paper we propose a platform that integrates mobile application technologies and cloud computing to provide regular monitoring of patients and avoidance of medical emergencies.

ChronicOnline: Implementing a mHealth solution for monitoring and early alerting in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

“…The ECHO system 15 consists of a frontend and a backend as shown in Figure 1. The frontend is either delivered as application on iOS and Android smartphones or as a web application made available via browsers.…”

“…In this article, we implement the frontend applications of the Enhancing Chronic patients’ Health Online (ECHO) system. 15 The ECHO system uses a combination of cloud and service-oriented computing, online services, data analysis, and eHealth applications to connect COPD patients to their physicians. The ECHO system is expected to monitor patients, verify the diagnosis with online alerts in order to avoid medical emergencies and unnecessary hospitalizations at low cost and at significant savings to the national health system.…”