Web based teletherapy system for telemonitoring and remote control of therapeutic devices

Abstract

Health Monitoring is a growing field of research and development that gets more and more attention. Monitoring of patients at home by means of telemedical devices is a great chance to reduce costs for the healthcare system and increases the quality of life. Expanding the idea of health monitoring, a system is presented which not only monitors patient's vital data, but also enables the physician to adapt the therapy from afar by remote controlling the therapeutic device at the patient's site. Taking therapy of pain with infusion pumps as an example, the shortcomings of current treatment are discussed and optimizations using a teletherapeutic system are shown. The presented system consists of a webserver with webservice interface, which allows bidirectional, secure and fault tolerant communication between the physician and the devices of the patient. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.