A pervasive tele-health system for continual and low intrusive monitoring using peer-to-peer networks. (26th March 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Le, Hanh; Schiff, Nina; Du Plessis, Johan; Hoang, Doan B.
• Is Part Of: International journal of computer applications technology. Volume 34:Number 4(2009)
• Page Start: 330
• Page End: 334
• Publication Date: 2009-03-26
• Subjects: electronic healthcare -- telehealth -- electrocardiograms -- ECG -- peer-to-peer overlay network -- e-health -- telemedicine -- intrusive monitoring -- peer-to-peer networks -- P2P networks -- health monitoring -- pervasive healthcare -- scalability -- cost efficiency; Technology -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 620.00285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0952-8091

Abstract

There are many people suffering from chronic illnesses, obesity and related diseases such as: high blood pressure, arrhythmia, diabetes, etc. However, with a large number of patients and constant health monitoring requirements, a centralised server will not be able to accommodate such high volumes of data. In this paper, the authors propose to develop a pervasive electronic healthcare system using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The authors developed a heart monitoring application as their first prototype to demonstrate the concept. The main advantage of the model is scalability and cost efficiency.