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AppA: assistive patient monitoring cloud platform for active healthcare applications

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Venki Balasubramanian,

Andrew Stranieri,

Ranjit KaurAuthors Info & Claims

IMCOM '15: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication

Article No.: 54, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2701126.2701224

Published: 08 January 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Continuous, remote monitoring of patients using wearable sensors can facilitate early detection of many conditions and can help to manage the growing healthcare crisis worldwide. A remote patient monitoring application consists of many emerging services such as wireless wearable sensor configuration, patient registration and authentication, collaborative consultation of doctors, storage and maintenance of electronic health record. The provision of these services requires the development and maintenance of a remote healthcare monitoring application (HMA) that includes a body area wireless sensor network (BASWN) and Health Applications (HA) to detect specific health issues. In addition, the deployment of HMAs for different hospitals is not easily scalable owing to the heterogeneous nature of hardware and software involved. Cloud computing overcomes this aspect by allowing simple and easy maintenance of ICT infrastructure. In this work, we report a real-time-like cloud based architecture known as Assistive Patient monitoring cloud Platform for Active healthcare applications (AppA) using a delegate pattern. The built AppA is highly scalable and capable of spawning new instances based on the monitoring requirements from the health care providers, and is aligned with scalable economic models.

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AppA: assistive patient monitoring cloud platform for active healthcare applications
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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IMCOM '15: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication

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Stranieri ABalasubramanian V(2022)Remote Patient Monitoring for HealthcareResearch Anthology on Big Data Analytics, Architectures, and Applications10.4018/978-1-6684-3662-2.ch050(1054-1070)Online publication date: 2022
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3662-2.ch050
Stranieri ABalasubramanian V(2019)Remote Patient Monitoring for HealthcareManagerial Perspectives on Intelligent Big Data Analytics10.4018/978-1-5225-7277-0.ch009(163-179)Online publication date: 2019
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