Title :
A smart approach towards a mobile e-health monitoring system architecture
Author :
Alahmadi, Ahmed ; Soh, Ben
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Comput. Eng., La Trobe Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
In the last few years the development of e-health monitoring systems has been significantly increased. The major aim of today´s e-health monitoring systems is that a consecutive measuring of patients´ vital signs in a home environment to ensure an up-to-date medical record. Further, the aim of the current systems directs to the problem of non-optimal real-time analysis of the data. However, providing the patient with an overview of his/her current health condition in a real-time manner is equally important. Another main drawback of currently proposed e-health monitoring systems design is they are created from the fact that patients are compelled to be within a smart home, rooms, or beds fitted with monitoring devices, which clearly restrict patient activity. In this paper we propose an approach of smart mobile e-health monitoring system based on defining a three level intelligent framework that share and analyze patient´s data towards achieving the main aim of our proposed approach which is a smart, mobile and dependable e-health monitoring system. This approach is specified to be a decentralized approach; data is analyzed and decisions are made in each level to provide mobile patients with the crucial feedback of his/her health condition, temporary advice, recommendations and response to any emergency situation that may happen anytime at any place.
Keywords :
medical computing; mobile computing; decentralized approach; emergency situation; health condition; home environment; mobile e-health monitoring system architecture; mobile patients; non-optimal real-time analysis; patient vital signs; smart approach; three level intelligent framework; up-to-date medical record; Medical services; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Monitoring; Servers; Smart phones; Wireless sensor networks; dependability; e-health monitoring system; mobile; smart; wireless sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-295-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICRIIS.2011.6125669