Building Long-Distance Health Care Network Using Minimized Portable Sensors and Active Alert System

Mobile Technologies in Healthcare: Approaches and Architecture

“…Healthcare for elderly people is gradually getting more attention not only in USA but also rest of the world. Majority of the elderly people are suffering from chronic diseases and they end up visiting hospitals and clinics for emergency care, regular checkups, procedures, and diagnosis (Shih et al, 2013). Circumstantial evidence suggests that acceptability of the wireless technology is increasing to facilitate chronic disease self-management.…”

“…Computing and sensing technologies are creating new opportunities to change the way healthcare is delivered now. Chronic conditions could be easily treated in an outpatient manner and receive comparable quality of care with lesser cost (Shih et al, 2013).…”

“…4. Educational -patient is able to get health care related information using tele-healthcare system (Shih et al, 2013). Continuous evolution of information technology is changing the way of providing health care facilities both in home and outside of home.…”

“…Continuous evolution of information technology is changing the way of providing health care facilities both in home and outside of home. Both wearable sensors and mobile embedded sensors are being widely used to measure patient's vital sign and activity by non-invasive methods (Shih et al, 2013). Sensors are able to detect signal such as EEG, ECG, pulse, temperature, gait, blood glucose and limb movement (Shih et al, 2013).…”

“…Finally the data is sent to server through Wi-Fi or 3G signal. For each different types of body signal threshold limit is set and the system triggers the warning procedure if the sensed data goes above the pre-set limit (Shih et al, 2013). …”