Mobile Healthcare Application for Virtual Patient Monitoring System

Abstract

Health care is one of the most significant areas to be focused on and which can be developed through innovative technology. Digitization of the health sector has been on for a long time. The use of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices is now used extensively. Communication between patients and their doctors has been made much easier and flexible through available mobile applications (app). So, the barrier of distance between patient and doctor has been eliminated. Mobile apps are convenient in clinical diagnosis and evaluation, timely advice, medicine prescription, and the distant monitoring of patients from various areas. The patient can able to share the medical information about the health condition securely through the developed mobile application. By this means, traveling a long distance and visiting the doctor for a regular checkup may be evaded. This chapter stretches a thorough description of a mobile app developed for the virtual patient monitoring system. A novel solution is proposed to monitor the most important health parameters of a patient using wearable sensors and images obtained using medical equipment. The mobile app supports receiving vital parameters such as body temperature, pulse rate, and oxygen saturation level from the wearable sensor node placed in the vicinity of a patient. Hence, developed application assists the doctor in the early prediction of the disease. It can able to analyze a patient’s health status by comparing it with their previous history. Further, the application helps to send alert notifications or short messaging services (SMS) to the patient for emergency physical examination. An elderly patient finds difficulty in visiting clinics for a regular checkup and also finds difficulty in staying in hospital for a longer duration. Thus, proposed and developed mobile application makes it convenient to monitor health status for any patient who are staying with limited access to the medical facility.