Ubiquitous Healthcare Platform for Chronic Patients

Abstract

Nowadays attentions are given to u-healthcare systems for the prevention and management of disease in chronic patients requiring long-term care to reduce medical expense and provide high-quality medical services. In this paper, a novel u-healthcare platform for caring chronic patients used care professionals is proposed, comprised of a compact bio-signal acquisition terminal, smart phone application that transfers multiplex bio-signals to the health management server, and health management server that monitors the bio-signals and analyzes a patient's health state. The platform collects various bio-signals from the patients using the acquisition terminal, and automatically monitors their bio-data, analyzes the state of their health and alarms on symptoms of any illness.