EpiCare — A home care platform based on mobile cloud computing to assist epilepsy diagnosis

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects a significant percentage of the population. Currently, electroencephalogram exams (EEG) are considered a valuable tool to support epilepsy diagnosis. In order to obtain a more trustworthy diagnosis, it is frequently necessary to submit patients to long monitoring periods. This fact, beyond causing discomfort to the patients and their relatives, implies high costs to the health system. This paper presents EpiCare, a platform to assist epilepsy diagnosis based on mobile cloud computing. The platform allows the continuous monitoring of the patient outside the hospital environment, capturing information of EEG recordings, detecting epileptic events and storing data to be reviewed by a specialist.