ESUMS: A mobile system for continuous home monitoring of rehabilitation patients

Abstract

The pressure on the healthcare services is building up for several reasons. The ageing population trend, the increase in life-style related disease prevalence, as well as the increased treatment capabilities with associated general expectation all add pressure. The use of ambient healthcare technologies can alleviate the situation by enabling time and cost-efficient monitoring and follow-up of patients discharged from hospital care. We report on an ambulatory system developed for monitoring of physical rehabilitation patients. The system consists of a wearable multisensor monitoring device; a mobile phone with client application aggregating the data collected; a service-oriented-architecture based server solution; and a PC application facilitating patient follow-up by their health professional carers. The system has been tested and verified for accuracy in controlled environment trials on healthy volunteers, and also been usability tested by 5 congestive heart failure patients and their nurses. This investigation indicated that patients were able to use the system, and that nurses got an improved basis for patient follow-up.

Assessing the usability of wearable devices to measure gait and physical activity in chronic conditions: a systematic review

“…The majority of participants were asked to wear their devices remotely (n = 29 studies; 78.4%) [ 34 , 37 , 38 , 41 – 51 , 53 – 57 , 59 – 70 ]. On average, participants were asked to use devices for 203.5 days (228.4).…”

“…On average, participants were asked to use devices for 203.5 days (228.4). Anything from 48 h to 12 months was reported in studies (Table 4 ), however the majority of studies asked participants to utilise devices for 7 days or longer (n = 27; 73.0%) [ 37 , 41 – 50 , 53 – 57 , 59 , 60 , 62 – 70 ].…”

“…Most wearables were used as part of a monitoring system (n = 32; 86.5%) [ 36 – 38 , 40 – 50 , 52 , 54 – 70 ], often where there was a requirement to link devices to either a smartphone/tablet with an app (n = 23; 62.2%) [ 38 , 42 – 46 , 48 – 51 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 59 – 70 ]. Required engagement from participants was poorly reported and was unclear or not reported in 45.9% of studies (n = 17) [ 34 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 40 , 47 , 49 , 51 – 53 , 56 – 58 , 60 , 61 , 66 , 67 ].…”

Accuracy of Heart Rate Measurement Using Smartphones During Treadmill Exercise in Male Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease

“…Nevertheless, the rate of participation in cardiac rehabilitation exercise programs is still low [45]. To increase the participation rate, home- and community-based cardiac rehabilitation programs incorporating information and communication technology (ICT) have been proposed [678910]. …”

Patient Health Monitoring and Controlling System using Internet-of-Things (IoT)

“…Device can be used for daily basis application. [7] III.SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE Hardware Implementation: The connectivity of the system is done as per the circuit diagram. Sensor connectivity such as thermistor, pulse rate sensor, potentiometer is done to micro-controller ATmega32.Device driver IC ULN2803 is used to drive the circuit.…”