Patient telemonitoring at home

One of the biggest problems in hospitals today is the increase of costs associated with the treatment of patients, especially in the case of the elderly. This trend makes it necessary to adopt new strategies in order to reduce such costs and, at the same time, maintain the high levels of care that are provided to patients. One way to reduce such costs is by moving patients to non-specialised areas or, if possible, to his/her home as soon as possible. In this paper we present a remote monitoring system capable of monitoring the state of a patient 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the analysis of parameters extracted from the electrocardiographic signal (ECG) and reporting any anomaly to the hospital. One important feature of the system is its flexibility for providing users with access to monitoring information. In order to do so, the system is equipped with two complementary interfaces, being capable of giving integral access to monitoring information at any time, any place and from any location in an optimal manner.