Title :
An Evolved eHealth Monitoring System for a Nuclear Medicine Department
Author :
Sannino, Giovanna ; De Pietro, G.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of High Performance Comput. & Networking, Nat. Res. Council of Italy, Naples, Italy
Abstract :
The use of medical devices and wearable sensor-based systems to monitor patients´ health conditions are continuously increasing both internally to hospitals and at home. In this paper we propose a system that is intended to monitor patients´ physiological parameters to detect abnormal cardiac accelerations and patient falls in real-time. The core of this paper is the realization of a user-friendly and context-aware system that uses a rule-based Decision Support System to elaborate the captured sensors data. The paper also describes a case study where the system has revealed important benefits for both patients and medical staff.
Keywords :
biosensors; decision support systems; health care; medical computing; patient monitoring; physiology; ubiquitous computing; abnormal cardiac acceleration detection; context-aware system; ehealth monitoring system; hospital; medical devices; nuclear medicine department; patient health condition monitoring; patient physiological parameter monitoring; rule-based decision support system; wearable sensor-based system; Biomedical monitoring; Cameras; Electrocardiography; Heart rate; Monitoring; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; ECG; Fall Detection; Monitoring System; Software Architecture; Wireless Monitoring; e-health;
Conference_Titel :
Developments in E-systems Engineering (DeSE), 2011
Conference_Location :
Dubai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2186-1
DOI :
10.1109/DeSE.2011.67