Abstract
A global phenomenon of population ageing and an increasing number of patients with chronic diseases place substantial additional pressure on healthcare systems. A possible solution for this problem is a new emerging sort of pervasive personal healthcare service that is focused on the patient and allows the patient to be actively involved in his or her own health care. In this paper, we propose the architecture of the pervasive personal healthcare service which is based on the existing technologies available to almost everyone. Along with the conventional request-response synchronous communication, the proposed system features asynchronous communication based on publish-subscribe-notify model. In order to perform asynchronous communication, a web application server is integrated with the Google Cloud Messaging service. The communication between mobile device and servers is carried out through the available Wi-Fi or mobile networks, whereas Bluetooth protocol is conventional for Body Sensor Networks consisting of wearable sensor devices. We also present a mobile application which has been developed with use-case driven approach for both patients and medical personnel. The introduced application has a form of a nonintrusive customized mobile social network. We explain usage scenarios that clarify the required functions and present conclusions based on the system test.
Highlights
According to the data from Continua Health Alliance [1] worldwide today: one billion adults are overweight, 860 million individuals are struggling with chronic diseases, 600 million are of age 60 or older and even 75-85% of the healthcare spending goes to chronic health management
We present a mobile application which has been developed with the use-case driven approach for both patients and medical personnel
In this Chapter, we present the implemented system architecture and explain in details the most important use cases implemented within the proposed mobile application
Summary
According to the data from Continua Health Alliance [1] worldwide today: one billion adults are overweight, 860 million individuals are struggling with chronic diseases, 600 million are of age 60 or older and even 75-85% of the healthcare spending goes to chronic health management. Predictions for the following period are even more alarming, plenty of research has been conducted in the field of systems for patient monitoring The goals of such systems are: make the health service more effective, patients must be actively involved in the treatment process, reduce the number of unnecessary checkups and field interventions, provide the elderly more comfortable life, become preventive and persuasive, and much more. 2. Technologies for acquisition of raw sensor data that offer the advantage of plug-and-play interoperability, which are: Bluetooth Low Energy 4.0 –BLE Health Device Profile (HDP) [3] and ZigBee Health Care [4]. Technologies for acquisition of raw sensor data that offer the advantage of plug-and-play interoperability, which are: Bluetooth Low Energy 4.0 –BLE Health Device Profile (HDP) [3] and ZigBee Health Care [4] Both rely on the standardization effort done by the Continua Alliance. It seems that people have an unspecific uneasy feeling and concerns about data security and loss of control
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