Body Sensor Networks ( Bsn ) And The Wireless Body Area Network

To tackle these issues Bella has defined its third design principle of ‘ease-to-use’. This will make TKO weight 2 Kg. or less and one touch operating device so that physicians could handle it with minimum training. Indian villages still face electricity issues and Bella is will provide solution to this problem by giving battery operated device. Bella is addressing issue of unavailability of trained physicians with its fourth design principle ‘connectivity’. This design feature will help physician to transmit data wirelessly to cardiac speciality centres and work with general practitioners to diagnose the issue. Thus these four design principles will help Bella to address all the key issues of heart disease diagnosis equipments. In addition to the new wireless data transfer feature, Bella’s design team is exploring the possibility of adding DICOM feature in TKO. Even though DICOM feature is not critical in near future, it will help Bella to differentiate its product from GE’s similar product and will give upper hand in marketing the device.

As consumers utilize smartphones, tablets, and other devices for other functions like social media and email, they are starting to look at these features to assist them with their healthcare. Mobile body area network devices will be a growing trend in the coming years as a way to get patients engaged in their healthcare and also to give providers routine updates on the status of patients with chronic conditions. As DeGaspari (2014) indicates, these devices can lead to improved functionality for other devices used in hospitals, such as sensors for monitoring patients that might get up and wander or be a fall risk. Telemedicine will continue to grow as payers, providers, and patients all start to realize the mutual benefits that can be

Basis interoperability refers to the standard data sharing (Blazona & Koncar, 2007). This standard includes clinical observation, laboratory, pharmacy, medical devices, imaging and insurance transactions. It also provides the exchange, management and integration of data that support patient care and care management, as well as the delivery and evaluation of healthcare services. Advanced interoperability consists of the uniform presentation of healthcare data, uniform user controls, and uniform protection of patient confidentiality. While developing the health port, the HL 7 standard package used was Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). This wireless system will help the nurses and other clinicians to communicate through text messages and pager alerts (Blazona & Koncar, 2007). By customizing the quality and type of message they receive, it is helpful for the nurses to avoid the unwanted alerts and messages through the new system. This wireless system enables the nurse’s greater mobility and thereby increasing their efficiency to take care of their patients.

The typical daily cost for single in patients in hospitals was over $1,700 in 2013, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation [10]. Remote monitoring products such as the BodyGuardian provide the healthcare advantages such as the option to move patients to their home and retain monitoring of their status by doctors and nurses. A paper [11] proposes an original, IoT-aware, smart architecture for automatic monitoring and tracking of patients, personnel, and biomedical devices within medical

This technological advancement facilitates the potential use of a \ac{WHTD} as a solution to relieve the burden on the health care system. The \ac{WHTD} refers to the devices which are capable of monitoring the physiological signs (e.g., heart activity, \ac{ECG}, \ac{EMG}, blood pressure, body temperature, oxygen saturation, etc.) of the human body and its surrounding environment (e.g., light, humidity, temperature, etc.) using a number of sensors located on or/and in the human body using \ac{BAN} \cite{movassaghi2014wireless,bangash2014survey,jovanov2011body}. This has been employed in various applications, such as military and sports training, \ac{HCI}, entertainment (interactive gaming), home and office automation, environmental monitoring, and \ac{VR}. It has also shown a tremendous potential as a personal healthcare system, which can provide services such as remote patient and elderly people monitoring, activity monitoring, rehabilitation, and disability assistance services as these devices can monitor health status seamlessly in real-time without disturbing users daily life. Consequently, major \ac{ICT} companies are introducing various wearable devices and services with Personalised Health Data management systems. Apple iWatch with HealthKit, Samsung Galaxy fit and Samsung Digital Health, and Google Fit are some of the

This author believes by moving the healthcare from hospitals and healthcare centers to the people home can potentially open up new opportunities to continuously monitor and adjust treatment and prevention plans accordingly. Healthcare cost is enormous and continually increasing, by integrating IoT to daily life of people, healthcare providers can detect and monitor the health of people in real-time and apply better preventive methods to reduce health risk factors and consequently the cost of care. The IoT can help people to manage their own life better by knowing their health status in real-time and adjust their lifestyle habits accordingly. The Patient with chronic disease like type I diabetes can continuously monitor their blood glucose level

My knowledge in this area is reflected with my understanding in the concept of remotely monitoring patients is not new but recently a lot of attention has been placed on smart wearable body sensors (SWS). Therefore, these devices contain an assortment of different sensors which can be used to monitor variables and transmit data either to a personal device or to a storage site. The variety of the sensors can be attributed to the types of stimuli that they respond to, for an example, physiological vital signs, body movements, and organic substances and their placements clothing, subcutaneous implant, body part accessory, and many more. These devices have the opportunity to meet the patients’ needs by administering information in real-time to the patient’s smartphone, computer or other wireless devices and has the potential to influence their behaviours. The sensors allow patients to self-monitor, track, and assess human physiological data, while also providing interfaces and a dashboard for healthcare providers. These sensors are easily managed and are becoming increasingly accurate and reliable for patient care. The SWS’s can also be utilized as a diagnostic tool to

There are no shortage of predictions about how the Internet of Things (IoT) is going to revolutionize healthcare by lowering costs and improving quality by giving better treatment and diagnosis to patients, ensure productivity and communication within medical facilities, and minimalize the margin of medical errors. We have only seen a glimpse of what healthcare IoT can offer, but what we do know is that it has the potential to increase patient accountability for their own health and wellness and decrease waste by providing supplemental information allowing healthcare providers to provide more personalized, targeted medicine.

Remote Patient Monitoring – home daily monitoring, empowering patient to be responsible for their health

This thesis revolves around defining wearable health tracking devices by adding an ac{WAB} that is able to transform the current wearable health tracking device from passive monitoring to active treatment assist device. This framework has been designed by combining the recent advancement of biomechanical, materials, electrical and telecommunication engineering, and industrial design technology. It is capable of not only collecting, storing, and monitoring raw and synthesised data as like as the current wearable healthcare devices do, but it also provides autonomous reconfiguration, controlling treatment processes by using data to provide intelligent local and remote feedback with decision making. Applications are relieved from clinical protocols of fracture and wound healing, post-operative pressure-assisted rehabilitations, remote patient monitoring and clinical intervention, sports monitoring in e.g., elite athletes in injury prevention, and data management for epistemology on the peculiarities of gender, race and age in these processes across the world.

WBAN technology could provide the connectivity to support elderly people and chronic disease in managing their daily life, it also allows easy internetworking with other devices and networks, thus providing the health care worker with easy access to a patient’s critical and non-critical data. A WBAN allows continuous monitoring of the physiological parameters. Wherever the patient is despite the distance such as in the hospital, at home or in the market, the patient will no longer need to stay in hospital bed, but will be able to move around freely. Furthermore, the data obtained during a large time interval in the patient’s natural environment offers a clearer view to the doctors or nurses than data obtained during short stays at the hospital

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is changing the health care industry by redefining how apps, devices, patients and technology interact. It also changing how providers connect with people and how hospitals deliver new health care services. Integrated health care systems reduce overhead costs, increase operational efficiency and ensure that patients are receiving better care. Better management and implementation of technology will improve treatment outcomes because patient monitoring can be done on a real time basis and digital solutions give health care providers access real time information in order to make informed decisions.

The most obvious effect of IoT on the clinical practice is the ability of any physician or a nurse to access- without the limitations of the time & locations - the medical records of any patient (e.g. diabetic patient) using only a tablet or a desktop computer and the scanned patients’ ID cards that links to a secure cloud which stores their electronic health record (Dimitrov

Intellihuman is an innovative and fascinating new solution which emphasizes on providing real time patient data, locality and monitoring range of vital statistics and subsequently relaying this information with a health care facility such as a hospital or clinic. In sense, intellihuman is the perfect collaboration of medical technology and Information Technology, providing the users with the best of both worlds. Intellihuman should be considers a giant leap involving these two fields as it is integral in the development of patient care over time utilizing every possible smart devices at our disposal.

patient safety in addition to provide data integrity (The Advisory Board Company, 2014). Instead of adding another layer of technology to the already complicated workflow of the nurse, the Patient Touch clinical workflows are delivered via Apple iOS, a consumer technology that is proven to be easy-to-use. Combining clinically-rich functionality with intuitive mobile technology that is always with the caregiver, the PatientTouch system is the first device to deliver on the point-of-care promise (PatientSafe Solution, 2015). It is used for wireless transmissions or communications and is a mobile computing device and software consisting of data transceivers, wireless networks and gateways for management of data (PatientSafe Solution,