Ubiquitous Healthcare System: Architecture, Prototype Design and Experimental Evaluations

Abstract

Seamless and timely monitoring of patients remains an open challenge in current healthcare systems. The need especially arises for patients with chronic diseases and those susceptible to sudden change in their health, such as cardiac patients and elderly people. Hence, there is a need for designing an automated health monitoring system that could seamlessly and efficiently collect patient information. This can largely improve the decisions made by medical professionals, especially in emergency and time-critical cases. This work proposes the design of a ubiquitous healthcare systems, termed as Remote Health Monitoring System (RHMS) that offers flexible and cost-effective solution. RHMS is designed to be wearable, light-weight and comprise various small non-invasive medical sensors. Results show that RHMS has the potential to provide physicians continuous monitor of patients through a centralized observation system without patients being physically present at any medical facility.