Title :
A fully automated health-care monitoring at home without attachment of any biological sensors and its clinical evaluation
Author :
Motoi, Kosuke ; Ogawa, Mitsuhiro ; Ueno, Hiroshi ; Kuwae, Yutaka ; Ikarashi, Akira ; Yuji, Tadahiko ; Higashi, Yuji ; Tanaka, Shinobu ; Fujimoto, Toshiro ; Asanoi, Hidetsugu ; Yamakoshi, Ken-ichi
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Natural Sci. & Technol., Kanazawa Univ., Kanazawa, Japan
Abstract :
Daily monitoring of health condition is important for an effective scheme for early diagnosis, treatment and prevention of lifestyle-related diseases such as adiposis, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and other diseases. Commercially available devices for health care monitoring at home are cumbersome in terms of self-attachment of biological sensors and self-operation of the devices. From this viewpoint, we have been developing a non-conscious physiological monitor installed in a bath, a lavatory, and a bed for home health care and evaluated its measurement accuracy by simultaneous recordings of a biological sensors directly attached to the body surface. In order to investigate its applicability to health condition monitoring, we have further developed a new monitoring system which can automatically monitor and store the health condition data. In this study, by evaluation on 3 patients with cardiac infarct or sleep apnea syndrome, patients´ health condition such as body and excretion weight in the toilet and apnea and hypopnea during sleeping were successfully monitored, indicating that the system appears useful for monitoring the health condition during daily living.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; body area networks; cardiology; diseases; health care; medical disorders; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; sleep; biological sensor; cardiac infarction; clinical evaluation; fully automated health-care monitoring; home monitoring; lifestyle-related diseases; nonconscious physiological monitor; sleep apnea syndrome; Activities of Daily Living; Automatic Data Processing; Automation; Equipment Design; Facility Design and Construction; Home Care Services; Humans; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Myocardial Infarction; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Sleep Apnea Syndromes; Telemedicine; Telemetry; Toilet Facilities; Transducers;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3296-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333712