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In a world with an accelerated population aging, there is an increasingly interest in developing solutions for the elderly living assistance. The Internet of Things is a new reality that is completely changing our everyday life, and promises to revolutionize modern healthcare by enabling a more personalized, preventive and collaborative form of care. Aiming to combine these two important topics, this...
This article describes experimental measurements of a skin temperature in vicinity of a surgical wound. Measurements were carried out in collaboration with the orthopedic department of the University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic. A system used for sensing, transmission and visualization of physiological parameters was developed at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. A main goal of measurements...
This study presents the design and development of a wearable ubiquitous healthcare monitoring system using integrated electrocardiogram (ECG), Photoplethysmogratphy(PPG), Skin Temperature and Accelerometer etc. In this design, non-intrusive healthcare system was designed based on WBAN for wide area coverage with minimum battery power to support RF transmission. In this system, WBAN(wireless body area...
Automated home care uses sensors to report about the well-being of monitored persons. Our complex event processing (CEP) system CommonSens simplifies the work of the application programmers, i.e., those who write the complex queries, by facilitating reuse of queries, sensor instances and environments. We have observed that many automated home care systems focus on detecting alarming behaviour, e.g...
Real-time monitoring of the physical condition of the patients is one of the major challenges faced by hospital authorities nowadays. All the hospitals today have one Patient Monitoring System (PMS) per patient. Also human intervention is needed frequently for critical patients. In this paper we propose a network based Wireless Single PMS (NWSPMS), which can monitor multiple patients to measure various...
Today's technological growth has made ubiquitous health care accessible to all by means of wearable health monitoring system. Such a system is essential for continuous monitoring of physiological signals and to provide early warnings for the chronic illness. The major challenge lies on the selection of processor and transmission mode. This paper highlights on the pilot study of developing ubiquitous...
Governments in under developing countries face serious problems for offering quality healthcare services at reasonable cost due to rapidly graying population and patients with chronic diseases. Due to currently healthcare resources are not sufficient, many deaths without medication are produced. Thus, this increasing important issue needs to be attended. Our approach to tackle this issue is based...
In this paper, we focus on the problem of constructing an information gain model for stroke prevention in Ubiquitous Healthcare (U-Health) Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). We have constructed an information-based probabilistic relation model among the key indicators and sequenced their data gathering priority and precedence in the WBAN. Then, we constructed a cost function over the energy expenditure...
Vital sensor and wireless information communication technologies play important roles in providing continuous health monitoring systems. The key elements required for the vital sensor device are its simplicity and accuracy, whereas those for the wireless communication tool are its connectivity and comfortability. For a commercially available wireless vital sensor with capability of measuring three-dimensional...
A wireless wearable physiological parameter monitoring system for home health care is studied in this paper. Based on the wireless wearable physiological parameter monitoring system of human research, we introduced realization of the ZigBee in wearable physiological monitoring system parameter acquisition module.
To enable remote monitoring and diagnosis of patients located far from medical facilities, a prototype Internet based telemedicine system is developed. The developed telemedicine system establishes an audio-visual connection as well as a data path from the patient's home to the medical personnel's office through a web browser interface. A remote controlled wireless camera installed on the patient...
We propose an effective acquisition scheme of sensor data in sensor network for healthcare support. This scheme can dynamically control quality and quantity of sensor data acquired from various sensor devices based on the inference of object person's health condition from real-time analysis of data stream related vital data. In this paper, we show the detail of our proposed scheme and its effectiveness...
Body Area Sensor can enable healthcare monitoring in an unobtrusive way. Medical and healthcare research has been striving to find relationships between core body temperature at female genitals and certain health conditions, such as ovulation period. This paper presents a solution for intra-body temperature monitoring based on a new intra-body sensor, communication and desktop application tool. This...
This paper presents the results achieved on the distributed telemedicine systems by the Research and Integration Centre - UTI Group (UTI), in partnership with the Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania. The partnership aim is to develop solutions to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of clinical and business...
There are a lot of people who need health care at home but can't or needn't go to hospital. This paper introduces a solution of home health care telemedicine service system that is composed of remote client system and service center system. The remote client system gathers the vital signs information and transfers it to the service center through 3G/CDMA communication network or Internet. The multi-parameter...
Low power consumption and small footprint make ZigBee based devices well suited for personal healthcare applications, being a promising alternative to general care patient monitoring. However, their use in a healthcare facility to monitor several mobile patients poses several difficulties, mainly because this protocol was primarily designed to operate in low data rate scenarios. This paper introduces...
This paper describes a healthcare support system based on multi-agent. This system provides wellness advice and information regarding health condition effectively and in user-oriented manner. Our system utilizes knowledge about healthcare and various information including vital sign, physical location, and video data of a user under observation from real space as a means to provide advanced healthcare...
With the Healthcare Delivery Systems being overloaded in the developing and densely populated countries, such as India and China, it is imperative to have efficient and cost-effective systems and processes. Building fresh leadership acumen in a complex and changing environment, establishing organizational excellence and designing new service delivery models will help us face the challenges. Building...
As people's living standards gradually improving, monitoring and ensuring the well being of citizen becomes an important part of our social care network. Due to the limitation of the quantity of family physicians and the level of telemedicine techniques, the ideal goal of the family medicine with respect to overall promotion of health care is still far to reach. This paper presents a novel framework...
The "long-distance home health care service" has become one of the key emerging businesses in Taiwan. In this paper, a mobile health management system is presented which is the first one integrating a wearable ring-type pulse monitoring sensor with a smart phone. All physiological measurements are transmitted to the smart phone through Bluetooth. The user can monitor his/her own pulse and...
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