Tracking and Notification Application for Arrhythmia Monitoring System

Abstract

Our heart can create and transmit electricity by sending electrical current from the upper right chamber to the upper left and lower chambers of the heart. This physical activity can stimulate the heart muscle, causing compression to expel blood. However, suppose the electrical system has a problem; it will cause the heart beats with an irregular or abnormal rhythm, or a short circuit occurs in the heart chambers that we call arrhythmia disease. The results in an irregular heartbeat; too fast or too slow cause the problem of pumping blood to different parts, sometimes very intensely, until causing death. In Thailand, there are a large number of patients suffering from arrhythmias, both knowingly and unconsciously. People know and receive treatment by using heat waves shot into the heart to cure and recover from symptoms, but some are incurable. Moreover, there is a lack of health care services for healing and recovering from the disease. Thus, a considerable number of patients are waiting for treatment. To reduce the gap, these patients should be able to care for themselves and perform continuously to improve every day. The critical factor is that the cardiologist needs more detailed information and disease symptoms to increase the efficiency of diagnosis. In this research, we design and develop a tracking and notification application for arrhythmia disease from the patient's daily checkup and the user's information. The proposed model is to create a mobile application to record data that could connect to a heartbeat detection device. Then, analyze the recorded data to suggest a consultation by the cardiologists about further treatment. Moreover, a notification system will remind the patients to take medicine and warn them of emergency events relatively close to them so that they can provide immediate help in the event of an emergency. As the results, the evaluation of the proposed model by cardiologist shows that this application has a good feature in encouraging patients or those who suspect themselves of arrhythmia disease to self-healthcare checkups for themselves and collect their data in real-time without going to the hospital.