Brokering Services for Integrating Health Cloud Platforms for Remote Patient Monitoring

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) uses technology to assess patients’ health within and beyond the healthcare facilities. RPM is becoming a reality by connecting the patient’s healthcare devices to the Internet. Modern healthcare devices come with a cloud-based support that provides patients with new features such as the broad network access to their vitals’ readings from anywhere. This shift of cloud-based support brought a new way to interact with the patients’ devices, as well as, new challenges that are different from the traditional Bluetooth interaction that is heavily studied in the literature. In real situations, patients usually have multiple devices to measure different vital signs that are made by different providers. Hence, it is not possible with the current approaches to have all patient vital readings consolidated in a single location. This consolidation enables the management of the chronic disorders and to analyze the health trends as part of the valuation of the treatment process. This work proposes a cloud-based brokering solution that seamlessly integrates multiple health cloud providers through a set of services that uses the web services cloud standard for the purpose of remote patient monitoring application. This work is validated by a prototype implementation.