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The ever progressing technological advances on the development of mobile phones, medical sensors and wireless communication systems are supporting a new generation of unobtrusive, portable and ubiquitous health monitoring systems for a continuous patient assessment and a more personalized health care. In this paper we present PhysioDroid, an Android based application operated together with a wearable monitor capable of measuring vital information such as electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate (HR), respiration rate (BR), skin temperature and motion directly from the human body. The application provides gathering, storage and processing features for the body sensor data. Likewise, the system works as a gateway enabling data transfer to a remote server which may be used for further processing and analysis. PhysioDroid also implements visualization of physiological information mainly intended to trigger alerts and emergency calls when abnormalities or risk situations are detected. This presentation illustrates part of the work described in the following article: * Banos, O., Damas, M., Glösekötter, P., Hermes, A., Hendrik, H., Pomares, H., Rojas, I.: PhysioDroid: an app for physiological data monitoring. In: Proceedings of the International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2013), Granada, Spain, March 18-20, (2013)
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PhysioDroid: an app for physiological data monitoring
Oresti Baños, Miguel Damas, Héctor Pomares, Ignacio Rojas
Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Technology Research Center for Information and Communications Technologies - University of Granada
{oresti,mdamas,hpomares,irojas}@atc.ugr.es
Peter Glössekötter , Andreas Hermes, Hendrik Mende Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of
Applied Sciences Münster {peter.gloesekoetter,andreas.hermes,hendrik.mende}@fh-muenster.de
The ever progressing technological advances on the development of mobile phones, medical sensors and wireless communication systems are supporting a new generation of unobtrusive, portable and ubiquitous health monitoring systems for a continuous patient assessment and a more personalized health care. In this paper we present PhysioDroid, an Android based application operated together with a wearable monitor capable of measuring vital information such as electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate (HR), respiration rate (BR), skin temperature and motion directly from the human body. The application provides gathering, storage and processing features for the body sensor data. Likewise, the system works as a gateway enabling data transfer to a remote server which may be used for further processing and analysis. PhysioDroid also implements visualization of physiological information mainly intended to trigger alerts and emergency calls when abnormalities or risk situations are detected. Keywords: Physiological monitoring, Health devices, Mobile computing, Wearable computing, eHealth, mHealth, Android, App
Abstract
• Developed countries: health care organizations are facing budget cuts due to the current financial crisis
• Developing countries: challenges in providing care because of scarcity of personnel and resources
Global Health Care Context
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) appear in this context with the aim of bringing clinical efficient and cost affordable health care solutions
• Telemedicine, teleassistance and telemonitoring are recent concepts that encompass a relevant part of such solutions, empowering preventative, promotive and curative aspects through the use of remote technologies
• Among eHealth systems, mobile health (mHealth) devices outstand for their personalization capabilities as well as for helping eliminate distance barriers and improving access to medical services that would often not be consistently available
ICT on Health (eHealth)
• Portable health monitors may provide: o Continuous monitoring of patient vitals o Caregivers and practitioners fast response to emergencies o Seamless profiling and updated description of patients health status o Health stakeholders (from patient to physicians) more profound
knowledge and awareness of the patient conditions and their evolution
• Contribute to a new health paradigm: o Prediction, prevention and proactivity (developed countries) o Broader care services access and more accurate diagnosis
(developing countries)
Portable health monitors
HARDWARE COMPONENTS
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
Physiodroid
Android Mobile Device
Server Portable monitor (EQ01)
Research/New developments Diagnosis,
Treatment
Emergencies
Structured patient data
Guidelines, recommendations
Monitored data
Health information
ECG, RESP, ACC, HR, BODY TEMP
This work was supported in part by the Spanish CICYT Project SAF2010-20558, Junta de Andalucia Project P09-TIC-175476 and the FPU Spanish grant AP2009-2244.
Acknowledgements
• Aim: facilitate access to a simplified description of patients’ health profiles as well as provide alerts on risk conditions
• Logging and authentication is used to uniquely identify users and avoid data disclosure
• Two views (data visualization): o One for the general user, including
averaged values and visual indicators of the vital signals status
o Another for the expert analyst that provides advanced representation of physiological data waveforms
• Monitored data may be stored both locally and remotely (server)
• Guidelines for the app usage are also provided
