DocumentCode
2493603
Title
An innovative system of health monitoring using mobile phones
Author
Yang, Mandy ; He, Xingzhou ; Gao, Lei ; Zhao, Li
Author_Institution
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
fYear
2012
fDate
10-13 Oct. 2012
Firstpage
379
Lastpage
382
Abstract
As chronic diseases have become very common recently, lots of people are faced with sub health problems. Two major reasons contributing to these problems are the increasingly busy lifestyle and working pressure. Therefore, People have no time to monitor their health although they are more and more concerned with health problems. This problem may be settled with the development of mobile communication. It is predicted that more 100 million people will own android phones by the end of 2012. The rapid development of mobile internet service and cloud computing will offer innovative method to monitor health status. This study describes a remote health monitoring service that provides an end-to-end solution.
Keywords
biomedical communication; medical computing; mobile computing; patient monitoring; smart phones; Android phones; health monitoring; health problems; innovative system; mobile communication; mobile phones; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Medical services; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Smart phones; blood pressure; health monitoring; healthcare; mobile healthcare;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379442
Filename
6379442
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