Title :
An Android phone Application for a health monitoring system with integrated medical devices and localized health information and database for healthy lifestyle changes
Author :
Chua, Jedd Emille ; Zaldua, John Amiel ; Sevilla, Thomas Joseph ; Tapel, Mark John ; Orlino, Michael Ray ; Rasing, Daniel Camilo ; Lee-Ramos, Catherine Manuela
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Comput., & Commun. Eng., Ateneo de Manila Univ., Quezon City, Philippines
Abstract :
Life-threatening conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases becoming more common, the need to change one´s eating habits and to monitor one´s lifestyle have become a necessity. However, going to the doctor frequently is very expensive, and preventive self-monitoring is now more practical and cost-effective. Furthermore, an organized health-monitoring and data-gathering system will make patient monitoring and case-by-case diagnosis and treatment easier. With the development of advanced mobile computing technology and interface able portable medical devices, this project aims to develop a health monitoring system with its cost-effectiveness, ease of data acquisition as features.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; data acquisition; diseases; graphical user interfaces; medical information systems; mobile computing; patient monitoring; patient treatment; smart phones; Android phone application; cardiovascular diseases; case-by-case diagnosis; case-by-case treatment; data acquisition; diabetes; health monitoring system; healthy lifestyle change database; hypertension; integrated medical devices; interface-able portable medical devices; life-threatening conditions; localized health information; mobile computing technology; organized health-monitoring-and-data-gathering system; person eating habits; person lifestyle monitoring; preventive self-monitoring; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Bluetooth; Medical diagnostic imaging; Monitoring; Smart phones; Stethoscope; BMI: Body-Mass Index; CVD: Cardiovascular Disease; PCM: Pulse Code Modulation; WHO: World Health Organization;
Conference_Titel :
Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment and Management (HNICEM), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Palawan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4021-9
DOI :
10.1109/HNICEM.2014.7016204