...2. Categorization of the Wireless Sensor Networks in healthcare systems 1. Monitoring of patients in clinical settings 2.Home & elderly care center monitoring for chronic and elderly patients 3.Collection of long-term databases of clinical data Monitoring of patients in clinical settings Presently Sensors are effective for single measurements, however, are not integrated into a “complete body area Network”, where many sensors are working cumulatively on an individual patient. Mobility is desired, but in many cases sensors have not yet become wireless. This creates the need for the execution of new biomedical personal wireless networks with a common architecture and the capacity to handle multiple sensors, monitoring different body signals,...
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...the prevailing health service system. From the statistics shown below, it is evident that a major contributor to the deaths in India is limited accessibility to healthcare. It can be observed that more than 50% of the deaths that happen in India are at the residences. Source: www.icmr.nic.in/final/causes_death However, there is a paradigm shift with regard to home care due to convergence of several technologies. Increasingly capable tele-health systems and the internet are not only moving the point of care closer to the patient, but the patient can now assume a more active role in his or her own care. The migration of healthcare industry to electronic patient records and the emergence of a growing number of enabling healthcare technologies coupled with these developments, demonstrate the unprecedented potential for delivering highly automated, intelligent health care in the home while at the same time reducing the cost of care. Integration of health care and smart technology for Home care How it works An example of a home equipped with smart health care system would be as follows: * Sensors supported by a local area network (LAN) is distributed throughout the home and the immediate outside environment * Transmitters and receivers will be distributed throughout the home allowing wireless sensors to utilize low-power infrared and radio-frequency...
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...Wireless Sensor Networks and Their Usage Ali Raza,Shahid Rasheed & Shazib Javeed University Of Central Punjab Abstract Innovations in industrial, home and automation in transportation represent smart environments. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) provide a new paradigm for sensing and disseminating information from various environments, with the potential to serve many and diverse applications Networks (WSN), where thousands of sensors are deployed at different locations operating in different modes .WSN consists of a number of sensors spread across a geographical area; each sensor has wireless communication capability and sufficient intelligence for signal processing and networking of the data. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are used in variety of fields which includes military, healthcare, environmental, biological, home and other commercial applications. With the huge advancement in the field of embedded computer and sensor technology, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), which is composed of several thousands of sensor nodes which are capable of sensing, actuating, and relaying the collected information, have made remarkable impact everywhere? Key Words Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs) Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Introduction Sensor network is capable of sensing, processing and communicating which helps the base station or command node to observe and react according to the condition in a particular environment (physical...
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...computing technology is used to monitor patient’s vital signs. Vital signs are comprised of: body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, sugar levels, oxygen levels, and respiratory rates. Vital signs can be taken using mobile technology today, and this gives patients and health care providers more flexibility. In the past, patients were required to travel to the doctor’s office or a hospital and have their vital signs tested. Typically, a nurses and clinicians would oversee and be responsible for the taking and recording of the vitals manually documenting them with a mobile computer or the results were written on paper and the clinician left the patients room to manually document into the electronic chart using computers. At times, this documentation happened hours later when time permitted. The vitals were hard to take in some cases and errors were not uncommon. These stats are a tool used to communicate patient deterioration to healthcare providers and sadly it also was not uncommon for clinical decisions regarding a patients care to be made using outdated vitals. With today’s technology, patient care can be a lot more effective. The use of smart phones and broadband-enabled devises has allowed patients to do their own monitoring of vital signs and body functions and upload them to their medical provider’s clinical servers. They even have the ability to do videoconferencing via their phones for remote consultations with their doctors. Using technology to take...
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...PHCare: MICROCONTROLLER BASED PORTABLE HEALTH MONITORING DEVICE Adrian T. Berroya Junell V. Breciño A Project Study Presented to the School of Engineering AMA Computer College Biñan In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science of Computer Engineering Biñan, Laguna December, 2014 Table of Contents Title Page i List of Figures ii List of Tables iii CHAPTER I I. INTRODUCTION 6 Background of the Study 6 Conceptual Framework 8 Statement of the Problem 9 Objectives of the Study 10 Significance of the Study 11 Scope and Limitation 11 Definition of Terms 12 Conceptual Definition 12 Operational Definition 14 CHAPTER II II. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURES AND STUDIES 15 Related Literatures 15 Mobile Health Monitoring 15 Biomedical Sensors 16 Android 15 Wireless Technology 22 Interfacing UART 30 Arduino 33 Related Studies 37 Foreign Studies 37 Local Studies 39 Synthesis 40 CHAPTER III III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 41 Research Design 42 Respondents of the Study 43 Sampling Design and Techniques 44 Research Instruments 45 Sources of Data 45 Data Gathering Procedures 45 Statistical Treatment 46 System Design 47 System Overview 47 System Block Diagram 49 System Schematic Diagram ...
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...and increase staff productivity. RTLS enables hospital managers the ability to increase oversight of millions of dollars’ worth of hospital-owned equipment and provides financial returns on increasing hospital-owned equipment utilization, reducing the need for excessive equipment rentals, and impacting lost, stolen or misplaced equipment. These asset tracking and management business drivers often provide the financial catalyst for getting an RTLS project approved. Real Time Location System- Awarepoint I. Definition To briefly explain the technology, RTLS wirelessly tracks the location of tagged assets or individuals in real-time wherever the facility has installed coverage. While RTLS is a complex technology, it can be simplified into three basic components: 1) the T2A asset tags (figure 2) that are affixed to the piece of equipment the hospital wants to be tracked; 2) the platform, which is the infrastructure consisting of sensors that creates a zigbee mesh grid (figure 3) and network components; and 3) the end-user software application that allows the users to see the tracked assets real time location on a computer or mobile device. Most RTLS products are "active" systems rather than "passive" systems. Active simply means that the tags have a battery in them and they can send out a wireless signal saying where they are. Radio signals are the most common wireless signal...
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...Marschollek, Michael (2009). Recent progress in sensor-enhanced health information systems – slowly but sustainably. Informatics for Health & Social Care, 34(4): 225-230 Introduction With an aging society and life expectancy rising there is great need for the integration of health enabling technologies into health information systems. The use of health enabling technologies is thought to help in the mission of improving the need for care and quality through the enhancement of sensor-enhanced health information systems. The greatest areas of importance for health enabling technologies are data security, patient centered care, diagnostic analysis, and system connectivity standards which will help focus on improving care, quality, and disease research. The transition from a system that is institutional focused to patient focus will not be immediate, for health enabling technologies is still fairly new and growing so it will be a slow process before patients and organizations reap the benefits of this new technology. Creating self-sufficiency is an important capability for patients and care givers especially for those living with chronic illnesses. Health enabling technologies will aid in managing illnesses through relevant information and communication, which is key for individuals to actively participate and have some control over their healthcare needs. The health enabling technology of sensor-enhanced health information systems will, in hopes...
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...Case Study II Mobile Computing and Social Networking Risha Alinthia Stuart Strayer University CIS 500 Information Technology for Management September 3rd , 2013 Professor: Dr. Jennifer Fleming Introduction In modern times, technology has become more innovative and convenient. Without technology they would not be able to provide their patients with the best treatment options. Mobile computing is an aspect of technology that has broken many barriers, and has influenced and assisted the healthcare industry tremendously. Most hospitals utilize mobile computing to facilitate the level of care they provide various patients. Social networking is a brilliant form of technology in which most people correspond using photos, comments and other mechanisms in order to communicate with one another. The healthcare industry is very demanding in terms of creating new ways of treating their patients, hence the fact that technology plays a pivotal role in the success in patient care and their level of success. The enhancement of mobile computing systematically allows patients with hypertension or diabetes to check their blood and glucose levels in the comfort of their own homes. This has been an immense breakthrough in the healthcare industry along with social networking, allowing patients to share their thoughts and opinions about their experiences with others. Most facilities implement the use of smart devices such as iPads and iPhones to simplify ways in which patients are...
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...pace at which technology is advancing health care systems are continually looking to be more economical, improve efficiency and throughput,mechanization of manual tasks is an principal component of a strategy for performance enhancement....
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...country are suffering from extreme poverty which eventually affects their health and medical needs. Thus, our government is lacking in an adequate, systematic, elaborate collection and storage of medical data for our underprivileged countrymen. In light of this, open-source hardware that is open for modification can easily be converted to form a new machine, gadget, or instrument, wherein its hardware schematics and integrated circuit layout can easily be obtained and redeveloped, is everywhere nowadays. Obtaining such hardware is easy since the internet is crowded by online shops which offer it for an affordable price. A few clicks of our mouse button allows us to ship this open source hardware anytime, anywhere. With this emerging new technology, inexpensive yet competitively efficient medical...
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... Date: November 19, 2013. Mobile computing and Social Network 1 Introduction The health care industry has witnessed great improvements in the past year. Due to wireless connectivity, private cellular devices, universal sensing technologies, social networks, and data analytics, the concept of wireless medicine has been greatly enhanced and is now a reality. According to Lewis (2012), the market for advanced patient monitoring systems in the United States has risen from $3.9 billion in the year 2007 to $8.9 billion in the year 2011 and is estimate to grow to about $20.9 billion by the year 2016. Monitoring patient vital signs via mobile computing to in-patient visits to the doctor’s Office or hospital. One of the most important components of patient care are the specific sign they each portray. These signs are heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, oxygen levels or respiratory rates and sugar levels which through mobile technology can be measured today. Not long ago, patients had to travel to the doctor’s office or a hospital for these physiological states to be tested. Normally, nurses and clinicians were responsible for overseeing, taking and recording of these signs physically, then document them either written on paper or with a mobile compute and then later into...
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...Implementation and Integration of Real Time Location Systems at County Memorial Hospital sylvrfaeree Managerial Applications of Information Systems—MIS535 DeVry University 2015 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Company Background 3 Business Problems 3 High Level Solution 4 Benefits 4 Approach 5 Overview of Real Time Location Services 5 Technology to Augment the Solution 6 Versus Advantages 6 Cisco IoE Location Aware Solutions for Healthcare 7 Hill-Rom Clinical Workflow Solutions 7 Centrak Clinical Grade Visibility Solutions 7 High Level Implementation 7 Hardware and Software 7 Personnel Training and Understanding 8 Overall Recommendations 8 Conclusion and Summary of Project 10 References 11 Implementation and Integration of Real Time Location Systems at County Memorial Hospital Abstract The issue to be addressed is the lack of tracking processes for staff movement, patient flow through the facility, and the resulting inefficiency and lower quality of patient care. Company Background Rural County Memorial Hospital was founded in central Rural County in 1951. Since its founding RCMH has grown into an award winning acute care facility dedicated to quality patient care. The facility’s...
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...corresponding system software are more and more popular in various aspects of healthcare. By utilizing modern techniques such as Body Sensor Network and General Packet Radio Service, the recent body sensor network systems continually collect user’s real-time health information and upload it to the database of healthcare center periodically. The system will track the user’s location accurately and alert the emergency center when detecting abnormal signals. Introduction Due to unhealthy living habits and...
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...Mobile technology is a term used to describe various types of cellular communication technology. It is especially relevant in this time and age as mobile usage is becoming widespread with more over 70% of the world’s population now having a mobile phone, over 5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide, and in places like the United States, with 9 out of 10 people owning a mobile phone (United Nations, 2011). Apple has sold almost 60 million iPhones world wide, while Google’s Android OS is growing at 886% year on year and now activating over 160,000 devices a day, across 60 devices in over 40 countries (St Thomas University, 2012). Mobile technology has also evolved by leaps and bounds just over the last decade – so much so that they are now more than just phones used to make calls. They can now go online with a web browser, have a GPS navigation system embedded inside and even function as game consoles. The many functions of new smartphones in mobile technology leads experts to saying that their wireless functions will be the future of information exchange. The next generation of smartphones will be able to keep track of your personal data and analyse it according to your needs, translate words by just scanning a signboard and tell you information about any location at which you point your phone. So of course, with all these wonderful capabilities, Man has found a way to use smartphone mobile technologies in the field of medicine too, to help people. In this paper, I will discuss...
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...Introduction The U.S. market for advanced patient monitoring systems has grown from $3.9 billion in 2007 to $8.9 billion in 2011 and is forecast to reach $20.9 billion by 2016, according to a study by Kalorama Information. Efforts to reduce costs in healthcare, avoid emergency room overcrowding, and prepare for a growing number of elderly patients in the years to come are a few of the drivers for the adoption of these systems. (Remote Patient Monitoring, 2012) Compare and contrast monitoring of patient vital signs using mobile computing technology to in-patient visits to the doctor’s office or hospital. Advances in remote patient monitoring include new peripherals, real-time audio and video for "face-to-face" interaction between clinicians and patients, and devices that are expected to transmit data to a physician's EMR system. The use of smart phones and broadband-enabled devises has allowed patients to do their own monitoring of vital signs and body functions and upload them to their medical provider’s clinical servers. For example, a glucose monitor that can also track a patient's blood pressure, another trend is the increasing use of patient monitoring systems that come with data processing applications and equipment that use algorithms to evaluate monitoring measurements for a patient's specific condition. (Remote Patient Monitoring, 2012) Hospitals and physician’s offices are also utilizing mobile computing technology. Hospital rooms across the nation have various...
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