Development of a low-cost wireless monitoring System supporting the Continuity of Medical Care of the Patient at home

The fusion of Biomedical Technology, Informatics and Medical Decision-making into the modern Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), as well as the population ageing and the escalation of hospital costs are the driving forces for adopting decentralized systems of health care provision. One of the main problems arising with decentralized health care provision, such as Home Care, is the discontinuity of medical care. This discontinuity appears not only in medical data transfer, but also in the quality of medical supervision. In order to accommodate for the lack of sufficient medical supervision in Home-Care environment, we have developed low-cost prototype solution for monitoring basic physiological parameters. The implemented architecture is employing wearable biomedical signal acquisition modules, utilizing “off the shelf” technologies in order to minimize cost. These modules transmit the acquired vital signs through a wireless link to a laptop computer. A web application allows continuous quasi real-time supervision of patient´s biosignals from any PC equipped with a web browser and appropriate authorization codes.