Abstract
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition on the rise. Not only does it affect the elderly but is also increasingly spreading to younger sectors of the population. Treating it involves exhaustive monitoring of patients. A tool adapted to the particular requirements of hypertension can greatly facilitate monitoring and diagnosis. This paper presents HBPF, an efficient cloud-based Home Blood Pressure Framework. This allows hypertensive patients to communicate with their health-care centers, thus facilitating monitoring for both patients and clinicians. HBPF provides a complete, efficient, and cross-platform framework to follow up hypertensive patients with an SLA guarantee. Response time below one second for 80,000 requests and 28% increase in peak throughput going from one to three virtual machines were obtained. In addition, a mobile app (BP) for Android and iOS with a user-friendly interface is also provided to facilitate following up hypertensive patients. Among them, between 54% and 87% favorably evaluated the tool. BP can be downloaded for free from the website Hesoft Group repository (http://www.hesoftgroup.eu).
Highlights
Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors in cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death worldwide (Craig & Mindell, 2006)
How to cite this article Cuadrado et al (2016), HBPF: a Home Blood Pressure Framework with Service Level Agreement (SLA) guarantees to follow up hypertensive patients
We report a series of benchmark experiments used to evaluate the performance and efficiency of HBPF
Summary
Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors in cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death worldwide (Craig & Mindell, 2006). It affects about 20% of the adult population, a percentage that increases with age (Aguado et al, 2009). Home blood pressure (HBP) consists of patients taking readings at home and registering these using a digital device. The patients send the readings to a health professional who is responsible for taking appropriate action (Pickering et al, 2008). How to cite this article Cuadrado et al (2016), HBPF: a Home Blood Pressure Framework with SLA guarantees to follow up hypertensive patients.
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