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Non-invasive and contact-less monitoring and low power wireless communication is very much demanding in medical and smart home scenarios for health care monitoring system. Here, we present a novel integrated solution for health care monitoring system specially for heart beat variability (HBV). Both sensing and communication is based on the Frequency Modulated Ultra Wide Band technology. Moreover,...
This paper presents an EKG system-on-chip (SOC) for portable health care and home monitoring applications. The EKG system acquires three channel EKG from front-end circuits and includes functions such as beat detection, interval calculation, and time-frequency analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) in real-time. An HRV analysis engine has also been developed using Lomb periodogram for time-frequency...
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...
Electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring is of prime importance in the medical world. Using the state of art technology to take it to a wireless platform can open up a broad spectrum of wireless medical devices which have a wide range of applications in medical services, military rescue missions, home cardiovascular monitoring, especially for senior people. This paper presents a platform for developing...
The aim of the study is to design a platform for tele-health monitoring system. This system will achieve the vital signs, such as blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate or blood oxygen, of patients, who need to be continuously monitored, with medical devices. This device will transmit the data to a clinical center using Internet. The data will be monitored through a web interface, necessary...
Implantable medical devices have become increasingly popular, and a growing number are equipped with wireless communications technology to increase their usefulness. However, this could make the devices susceptible to hackers.
In the present study we show how an algorithm for generating heart failure alerts can be improved by retrospectively evaluating the available data. We built on a previous study on home based monitoring of heart failure patients after an episode of acute decompensations using mobile phones. Data from patients monitored in the years 2003 to 2008 were analyzed. For the analysis of historic treatment...
An evaluation of a newly CE approved bedside monitoring device used in a general hospital ward is presented. This evaluation has shown that it is feasible to use the system within this environment to provide medical staff with supplementary information on patient health, at more frequent intervals than traditional monitoring methods. The physiological data recorded by the body worn device is wirelessly...
Emerging biomedical transducers combined with technologies such as radio frequency identification, mobile cellular radio and global positioning systems are about to change the revalidation process of patients that recover from a heart attack or that have excessive fat. This paper explores how, by using these technologies, a training companion can be designed that allows these patients to become nomadic...
The health care costs in developed countries are increasing fast due to the aging of the population. In-home monitoring of health is becoming more and more attractive both because of expected cost-savings and technical development of suitable measurement devices and wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we present on-going work about embedding health monitoring devices into ordinary homes. The...
In the health-care area, there is a growing demand for devices capable of monitoring cardiorespiratory function in a simple and comfortable way without interfering with the patient's behavior. Smart monitoring systems are also requested for the recording of vital signs in healthy subjects for research, assessment of performances, safety, and injury prevention purposes. Typical nonclinical areas of...
During the clinical validation of HEARTFAID, a platform of services for the medical-clinical management of heart failure (HF) in elderly subjects, performed in several European sites, special attention was paid to test Nurse@Home (N@H), a flexible and innovative application for the home monitoring of HF patients. This paper is focused on the validation performed in the sites of Catanzaro and Milan,...
The humanpsilas pulse wave signals show promising in home health monitoring. Many efforts have been made to promote sphygmogram-based cardiovascular diagnosis application. In this paper, a mobile intelligent sphygmogram analyzer is discussed, which attempts to extend the PC-attached cardiovascular prognosis system to ARM-based embedded platform and solves the conflict between the powerful functions...
Although different systems are available on the market to record ECG and to send it to an analysis station, there is still demand for a more versatile, easy to use device that shorten the time the diagnosis is available, avoiding the patient to move to a healthcare center: the purpose of our work was to validate a solution that fullfil this requirement. Twenty family doctors and two cardiologists...
Introduction. Self-measurement of blood pressure at home (a.k.a. home blood pressure = HBP) is accepted by the international medical guidelines as an effective procedure for the management of arterial hypertension and is increasingly popular among hypertensive patients. This, however, transfers on the patientspsila side the responsibility of data acquisition, storage and management. PAOLINA represents...
Patients recovering from a cardiac surgery need to undergo regular checkups and physical rehabilitation exercises at their local rehabilitation centers. It is time-consuming and not personalized for each individual. Moreover, the stigma and emotional stress of re-visiting the rehabilitation center for some patients may prove to be more debilitating. With increasing pervasiveness of powerful mobile...
This paper describes the AMOC project which aims at the improvement of patient throughput in the outpatient clinics. Indicators describing the workflow were extracted and serve as a base for a so called continuous improvement model. As pro actively monitoring the workflow turned out to be the best tool to optimize the throughput, a computer system was developed to present in a ldquodashboardrdquo...
MyHeart is a so-called Integrated Project of the European Union aimed at developing intelligent systems for the prevention and monitoring of cardiovascular status. The approach of the MyHeart project is to monitor Vital Body Signs (VBS) with wearable technology, to process the measured data and to give the user (therapy) recommendations from the system. Using its broad base of technical and business...
As Grid networks grows, the complexity of resource management in Grid networks dramatically increases. To manage the Grid resources efficiently, policy based resource management system is suitable. However, the policy which made at a moment could not be appropriate to other time because the condition of the grid resources with time space changes. Thus, in this paper, we propose asynchronous policy-based...
INTERLIFE is an EU 1ST e-TEN project aiming in enhancing healthcare services by introducing new means for quality health care management via telemedicine services, and by improving the patients' and citizens' quality of life. INTERLIFE, based largely on the results of the citizen health system (CHS) EU 1ST, is a technological and medical knowledge management and processing infrastructure able to support...
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