An innovative system of health monitoring using mobile phones

Abstract

As chronic diseases have become very common recently, lots of people are faced with sub health problems. Two major reasons contributing to these problems are the increasingly busy lifestyle and working pressure. Therefore, People have no time to monitor their health although they are more and more concerned with health problems. This problem may be settled with the development of mobile communication. It is predicted that more 100 million people will own android phones by the end of 2012. The rapid development of mobile internet service and cloud computing will offer innovative method to monitor health status. This study describes a remote health monitoring service that provides an end-to-end solution.