Chapter 5 - Patients using real-time remote health monitoring applications: a review

Abstract

Remote health monitoring is progressing every day due to technologic developments in the mobile era. It includes sophisticated smart health monitoring mobile-based applications and software. In remote health monitoring, mobile health (mHealth) monitoring is the most prominent field because of its competent facilities for patients and physicians to observe the patient's health continuously. mHealth applications are fully resourceful for an ambulatory patient who has a chronic disease and needs telemedicine services, e.g., availability of a doctor and an ambulance to rescue. Mostly mHealth applications work with the information of the patient including the type of disease and observation of the surroundings. The following are outcomes: (1) constraints and issues with identifying existing patients with chronic disease are discussed and addressed; (2) an effective strategy for remote ranking of patients based on chronic diseases; and (3) a new multiple-criteria decision-making concept is needed to solve the current challenges with the ranking of patients having chronic diseases. For studying the literature, we have searched several libraries including Science Direct, IEEE-Explore, Springer, and so on. A total of 1050 articles were scrutinized, and after the inclusion and exclusion criteria, over 100 research articles were selected for completion of the study. We also used the rank order centroid technique to rate the articles. This study describes the open issues in telemedicine for further valuable contributions to enhancing remote health monitoring.