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

fYear

2006

fDate

26-27 June 2006

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

29

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Business, 2006. ICMB '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-2595-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMB.2006.39

Filename

4124124