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Lean management philosophy (LMP), which arose from the discrete manufacturing industry, is currently being adapted to service-providing organizations. The healthcare organizations currently need to improve productivity, especially in the area of the identification and elimination of waste. This manuscript presents a case study carried out in a cardiology clinic. A ‘family of services’ has been identified...
Many modern people wants to live a healthy life. More recently, a lot of interest in the IOT based healthcare solution or smart phone-based, real-time health management solutions by technological development. The health management solution in many cases is provided through the bio-signal measurement and activity level analysis based on the location information. In this study, sitting posture was based...
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...
Forty eight hospitalized patients, due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbation, were included in this study with a randomization ratio 1:1. The study group patients were early discharged and monitored at home through the wearable “Healthwear” system, while control group patients underwent conventional care. Patients' intensive monitoring included ECG, heart and respiratory rate,...
In recent years, Personalized, Predictive, Preventive, and Participatory health care have become more than just buzzwords. Silicon is playing an important enabling role in this gradual, but certain revolution of our healthcare system: Silicon will become more essential, in view of the many challenges in realizing ubiquitous monitoring, real-time diagnostics, and patient-centric therapies. By reviewing...
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...
This paper aims to show the necessity, requirements and development of an affordable monitoring and telecare system for patients with chronic heart failure. It presents Health @ Home1, a project partly co-funded by the European Ambient Assisted Living Programme (AAL) which has the purpose to provide an integral solution for the societal problems related to the provision of healthcare services for...
A combined method to reduce motion artifact (MA) and power line interference (PLI) for wearable healthcare system is introduced. The proposed method has a block for the reduction of MA using measured electrode-skin impedance as a reference signal and a block for the cancellation of PLI using mixed-signal feedback to relax the dynamic range requirements of components in the forward path. The measured...
Patients with arrhythmias would greatly benefit from daily ECG monitoring, both for diagnosis and therapy optimization. The aim of this study was to simulate several ECG monitoring strategies which could help in optimizing a home monitoring device. Simulations were performed using data from patients implanted with DDD-CLS pacemaker for Brady-Tachy Syndrome (Burden II Study). The data analysis was...
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...
This paper presents a sports health care system suitable to the fitness club environment. As improvement of quality of life, increasing interest of exercise, it has been studied and developed products briskly for exercise management. As such products are developed mainly for outdoors activity, however, it has a limitation to systematically manage exercise in consideration of fitness club environment...
mHealth systems are becoming very attractive for the home care monitoring and, in particular, for the monitoring of patients with heart failure. Knowledge-based technologies can be profitably used to design advanced software system able to provide efficient and dependable service to patients and physicians. In this paper we present a Rule-based Decision Support System for mHealth environments; the...
Lately, Advancement in wireless technology and biomedical sensor nodes provide a good platform for ubiquitous healthcare development. In this paper, we propose a brand new concept for ballistorcardiogram(BCG) monitoring system which is implementing wireless sensor node to transmit BCG signal to a base station in hospital for long term monitoring and easy BCG analysis purpose. We design a chair type...
This paper describes wireless wearable and ambient sensors that cooperate to monitor a person's vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure during daily activities. Each wearable sensor is attached on different parts of the body. The wearable sensors require a high sampling rate and time synchronization to provide a precise analysis of the received signals. The trigger signal for synchronization...
Nowadays, Heart related diseases are on the rise. Cardiac arrest is quoted as the major contributor to sudden and unexpected death rate in the modern stress filled lifestyle around the globe. A system that warns the person about the onset of the disease earlier automatically will be a boon to the society. This is achievable by deploying advances in wireless technology to the existing patient monitoring...
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...
This paper describes a medical IT platform based on Wireless Sensor Networks and e-textile which supports indoor location-aware services as well as monitoring physiological parameters, such as ECG, heart rate, body temperature, etc., from a group of patients within hospital facilities. The paper presents the architecture, system deployment and validation results based on local test as well as on a...
The main purpose of this research work is to develop a wireless sensor network system that can continuously monitor and detect cardiovascular disease experienced in patients at remote areas. A wearable wireless sensor system (WWSS) is designed to continuously capture and transmit the ECG signals to the patient's mobile phone. The fastest alert will be issued to doctors, relatives, and hospitals, using...
A wrist-worn health monitoring terminal is developed to realize body's multi-parameter measurement by including a common mobile phone. The common mobile phone wireless connected to the health monitoring terminal is included to be the memory and the displayer. Also the mobile phone acts as the wireless module to communicate with the health service centre. The physiological parameters includes body...
To address the issue of increasing health care costs and overcrowded care giving institutions, there is an increasing focus on the use of mobile technology and biological sensors in developing better Tele-health systems. Remote monitoring of cardiac activity is a central endeavor of Telemedicine. This article describes the implementation and evaluation of the performance of an electronic health ECG...
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