Abstract
Mobile health care monitoring system have the capacity to provide critical assistance in areas of medical care, especially in situations where there are limited number of health workers needed to attend to patients. This project describes the development of a mobile health care monitoring system capable of monitoring the heart rate of patients and recording this information electronically. The system will provide much needed relief for medical workers with high volume cases. The system was constructed using a mobile robot capable of traversing rugged terrain, a motor shield, a Global Positioning System (GPS) shield for autonomous navigation, an ultrasound sensor for obstacle avoidance, and a heart rate sensor for measuring patient heart rate. The mobile system was able to successfully avoid obstacles and navigate to the predetermined locations of three hospital beds and obtain the heart rate of three patients. Future improvements to the system include the addition of wireless capability so patient data can be transmitted wirelessly to physician’s PC, incorporation of speech capability to enhance interaction between robot and patient and addition of more sensors to measure other vital signs such as blood glucose.
Highlights
Mobile health care monitoring system have the capacity to provide critical assistance in areas of medical care, especially in situations where there are limited number of health workers needed to attend to patients, for instance in a united nation refugee camp where there is shortage of medical staff and resources are scarce
The biomedical sensors used in this system are not are mounted on a mobile robot, which autonomously moves from patient to patient
Mobile health care monitoring systems developed to date are meant to be used outside the hospital settings
Summary
Mobile health care monitoring system have the capacity to provide critical assistance in areas of medical care, especially in situations where there are limited number of health workers needed to attend to patients, for instance in a united nation refugee camp where there is shortage of medical staff and resources are scarce. Shahriyar et al [1] developed an Intelligent Mobile Health Monitoring System (IMHMS) that uses the Wearable Wireless Body/Personal Area Network for collecting data from patients, mining the data, intelligently predicts patient's health status and provides feedback to patients through their mobile devices. The acquired biological data is stored in the patient’s mobile device and is sent to an intelligent automated medical server for analysis. The automated server will provide feedback to the patient based on the data it receives. This system encourages patients to participate in the health care process using their mobile devices and patients are able to access their health information from anywhere and at any time. IMHMS is intended to be used by patients who have been discharged from the hospital but still need to constantly monitor vital biological signals. It is not intended to be used in the hospital setting
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