Title :
Implementation and Evaluation of a Ubiquitous Health Monitoring System
Author :
Yamazaki, Akira ; Koyama, Akio ; Arai, Junpei ; Barolli, Leonard
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Yamagata Univ., Yamagata
Abstract :
In recent years, because of the birthrate declining and the elderly peoplepsilas population growing, the lack of doctors and the increase of the medical cost is becoming a big problem. One of solution for this problem is to prevent the humans from diseases in order to reduce the medical cost (e.g. by using the hospital as few times as possible). In this research, we have developed a wearable vital sensor which can be used anywhere without disrupting the everyday life of the patient. Furthermore, we have implemented a ubiquitous health monitoring system, which can confirm and share the sensor information received from a cellular phone attached to the wearable vital sensor immediately through the browser. This system can also send emergency report based on sensor information to the family and the doctor. In addition, we verified the system effectiveness by evaluating the implemented system.
Keywords :
biosensors; health care; mobile computing; patient care; wearable computers; browser; cellular phone; diseases; medical cost; patient; sensor information; ubiquitous health monitoring system; wearable vital sensor; Biomedical monitoring; Cellular phones; Costs; Diseases; Hospitals; Humans; Patient monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensor systems; Wearable sensors; Cellular Phone; Health Monitoring; Sensor; Ubiquitous; Waist Sensor;
Conference_Titel :
Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2009. CISIS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3569-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3575-3
DOI :
10.1109/CISIS.2009.143