Mobile health monitoring and consultation to support hypertension treatment

Author

Sandi, Gitarja ; Nugraha, I. Gusti Bagus Baskara ; Supangkat, Suhono Harso

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Inf., Bandung Inst. of Technol., Bandung, Indonesia

fYear

2013

fDate

13-14 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Hypertension is a disease that can lead to heart attack and blood vessel disease. Maintain blood pressure on normal conditions can reduce the risk of hypertension and heart disease. Conventionally, patients can consult the hypertensive condition by visiting hospital then take measurements of blood pressure, doctor will diagnose the condition of a patient´s blood pressure, then give advice on what should be done by the patient. This paper will describe the monitoring and consultation system for hypertension treatment using smartphone devices that are integrated with medical sensor device.

Keywords

blood pressure measurement; diseases; mobile computing; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; smart phones; telemedicine; blood vessel disease; heart attack; hypertension disease; hypertension treatment; hypertensive condition; medical sensor device; mobile health consultation; mobile health monitoring; normal blood pressure conditions; patient blood pressure condition diagnosis; smartphone devices; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Telemedicine; hypertension; mobile-care; telehealth; telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ICT for Smart Society (ICISS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jakarta

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0143-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTSS.2013.6588109

Filename

6588109