Towards the development of next-generation remote healthcare system: some practical considerations

Maharatna, Koushik, Mazomenos, Evangelos, Morgan, John M. and Bonfiglio, Silvio (2012) Towards the development of next-generation remote healthcare system: some practical considerations. 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seoul, Korea, Republic of. 20 - 23 May 2012. (doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6270390).

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Abstract

In this paper first we present an overview of the state-of-the-art remote patient monitoring systems in the back- drop of real clinical needs. The paper establishes a clear guideline in terms of clinical expectations from such a system from the viewpoint of practicing clinicians. It provides in-depth analysis of the shortcomings of the existing architectures and paves a way towards developing a practical “patient-centric” architecture that could be useful in the day-to-day clinical practice for providing “continuum of care”. Subsequently, the restrictions imposed by the resource constrained nature of such a system on development of appropriate hardware for supporting information processing on the data acquired by body-worn sensors are analyzed.

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