Home telemedicine system for chronic respiratory disease surveillance — An automated solution for disease control and management to combat the health impact of indoor air pollution

Author

Fong, A.C.M. ; Fong, B.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Auckland Univ. of Technol., Auckland, New Zealand

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 July 2012

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

476

Abstract

This paper discusses the utilization of a home wireless telemedicine network for surveillance of chronic diseases linked to indoor air pollution. Inhalation of various chemicals and pollutants on a daily basis is known to be damaging to the respiratory system causing serious health hazards. An automated solution is described for acquisition of data for disease control and management so that the users can be alerted of any impending risk so that appropriate preventive actions can be taken.

Keywords

air pollution; computerised monitoring; diseases; patient monitoring; telemedicine; automated solution; chronic respiratory disease surveillance; disease control; health hazards; health impact; home telemedicine system; home wireless telemedicine network; indoor air pollution; pollutants; respiratory system; Air pollution; Biomedical monitoring; Chemicals; Diseases; Monitoring; Telemedicine; Wireless communication; chronic disease; indoor air quality; respiratory illness; telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2012 7th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2118-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEA.2012.6360774

Filename

6360774