Title :
Wireless eHealth (WeHealth) — From concept to practice
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Universal Wireless Commun., Minist. of Educ., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Recently, the R&D and applications of M2M systems are booming in China, especially after it is written in the 2010 Government Work Report. In this paper, the R&D works of wireless eHealth (WeHealth) are overviewed, the concept of which was proposed by our group in 2005. Some key techniques of WeHealth system are discussed, and some practices based on the concept of WeHealth are introduced. Besides, a recent WeHealth pilot trial on chronic disease monitoring is also introduced, which is reported as “The First Wireless Healthcare Chronic Disease Monitoring Project in China Based on Internet of Things Technology”. There are 30 community hospitals up to now applying our WeHealth blood pressure monitoring system for chronic disease management. The practical data clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of our WeHealth system in hypertension disease control.
Keywords :
Internet of Things; biomedical communication; blood pressure measurement; diseases; health care; open systems; wireless sensor networks; Internet of Things technology; M2M systems; WeHealth blood pressure monitoring system; chronic disease monitoring; community hospitals; hypertension disease control; wireless eHealth; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Diseases; Hypertension; Monitoring; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; M2M; chronic disease; healthcare; wireless;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2039-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2038-3
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379441
