DocumentCode :
2493603
Title :
An innovative system of health monitoring using mobile phones
Author :
Yang, Mandy ; He, Xingzhou ; Gao, Lei ; Zhao, Li
Author_Institution :
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
fYear :
2012
fDate :
10-13 Oct. 2012
Firstpage :
379
Lastpage :
382
Abstract :
As chronic diseases have become very common recently, lots of people are faced with sub health problems. Two major reasons contributing to these problems are the increasingly busy lifestyle and working pressure. Therefore, People have no time to monitor their health although they are more and more concerned with health problems. This problem may be settled with the development of mobile communication. It is predicted that more 100 million people will own android phones by the end of 2012. The rapid development of mobile internet service and cloud computing will offer innovative method to monitor health status. This study describes a remote health monitoring service that provides an end-to-end solution.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; medical computing; mobile computing; patient monitoring; smart phones; Android phones; health monitoring; health problems; innovative system; mobile communication; mobile phones; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Medical services; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Smart phones; blood pressure; health monitoring; healthcare; mobile healthcare;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2039-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2038-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379442
Filename :
6379442
Link To Document :
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