Title :
Personal Heart Monitoring and Rehabilitation System using Smart Phones
Author :
Leijdekkers, Peter ; Gay, Valérie
Author_Institution :
Fac. of IT, Sydney Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
This paper discusses a personalized heart monitoring system using smart phones and wireless (bio) sensors. Based on several scenarios we present the functionality of a prototype we have built. The application is capable of monitoring the health of high risk cardiac patients. The smart phone application analyses in real-time sensor and environmental data and can automatically alert the ambulance and pre assigned caregivers when a heart patient is in danger. It also transmits sensor data to a healthcare centre for remote monitoring by a nurse or cardiologist. The system can be personalized and rehabilitation programs can monitor the progress of a patient. Rehabilitation programs can be used to give advice (e.g. exercise more) or to reassure the patient.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; biosensors; cardiovascular system; diseases; health care; mobile radio; patient care; patient rehabilitation; patient treatment; radiotelemetry; wireless sensor networks; automatic ambulance alert; biosensor; cardiovascular disease; healthcare centre; high risk cardiac patient remote health monitoring; personal heart monitoring system; personal heart rehabilitation system; smart phone application; wireless sensor; Biosensors; Heart; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Remote monitoring; Sensor systems; Smart phones; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Business, 2006. ICMB '06. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2595-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMB.2006.39
