Assistive care loop with electronic maternity records

Abstract

[Hoang, D.B.; Lawrence, E.; Ahmad, N.F.; Balasubramanian, V.; Homer, C.; Foureur, M.; Leap, N., Assistive care loop with electronic maternity records, Pe-health Networking, Applications and Services, 2008. HealthCom 2008. Abstract-Surprisingly women-held pregnancy health records (paper based) are still predominantly used in most hospitals in Australia. These records are not standardized as each hospital or state has a slightly different version. Early efforts have been made to standardize pregnancy records and make them available electronically. Electronic record systems do not allow dynamic interaction between users and they are not accessible when users are mobile. This paper describes an Assistive Maternity Care (AMC) system that addresses a number of important issues: 1) transforming a women-held paper-based record for pregnancy care into an Electronic Maternity Record (EMR); 2) investigating mechanisms to make the record active; 3) creating a system whereby details of the pregnant women and their carers can be recorded, updated over wired and wireless networks; and 4) creating a pregnancy care loop over which midwives and doctors and pregnant women under their care can communicate effectively anywhere, anytime for the duration of pregnancy.

Reliability Measure Model for Assistive Care Loop Framework Using Wireless Sensor Networks

“…The ACLF extends our earlier work on the Assistive Maternity Care (AMC) application [2], shown in Figure 1, which also demonstrates the details of the sensory part. Currently, paper-based health records are maintained for pregnant women at most of the health services in New South Wales, Australia.…”

“…In this process, the "sink" is a data aggregation point that collects the measured data from the surrounding sensors and sends them to an endpoint of the application. In recent years, these capabilities have allowed a BAWSN to be deployed in many time-critical health care monitoring applications [1][2][3][4][5][6]. In timecritical health care monitoring applications, it is imperative that the end-point receives such applications, the measure of reliability using the message-level reliability methods may not be suitable.…”

SOAP based Assistive Care Loop using wireless sensor networks

“…Since Stargate gathers data every 10 seconds from the sensor and has adequate buffer memory to store we have modeled Stargate to respond for every request. In case, if the user only wants to enter the data in her visit details [4], instead of monitoring she can get the current value by clicking the get data button as shown in Figure 2(a). In either case, the received data are sent to the AMC application using SOAP messages via 3G/GPRS.…”

“…Since paper-based records have a number of disadvantages including the poor use of space, fragility, limited to single user at any time, vulnerability of records being misplaced or lost, and the effort required to search for information from either large single record or collections of records [4], we have developed an AMC application (pilot) by establishing EMR. The developed AMC application helps practitioners (such as doctors and midwives) and pregnant woman to access those records outside the hospital not only through desktops but also by using a PDA, which contribute towards mobility and freeness from the hospital environment.…”

“…Moreover, the framework can be used for any type of Body Area Network (BAN) applications. The proposed framework extends our earlier work on Assistive Maternity Care (AMC) [4]. The framework monitors the health condition of the aged and patients using any of the available sensors such as medical sensors, wearable sensors, mobile sensors and fixed sensors depending on the disease or needs of those aged and patients.…”