Personalized Health Monitoring System for Managing Well-Being in Rural Areas.
Rural India lacks easy access to health practitioners and medical centers, depending instead on community health workers. In these areas, common ailments that are easy to manage with medicines, often lead to medical escalations and even fatalities due to lack of awareness and delayed diagnosis. The...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12 |
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| Formato: | pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Jan2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=127145180&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 127145180 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01485598 4N0 jtl: Journal of Medical Systems issn: 01485598 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2018 vid: 42 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 127145180 127145180 127145180 10.1007/s10916-017-0854-9 127145180 ppf: 1 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Personalized Health Monitoring System for Managing Well-Being in Rural Areas. aug: au: Nedungadi, Prema Jayakumar, Akshay Raman, Raghu affil: Center for Research in Analytics & Technologies for Education (CREATE), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amrita University, Amritapuri, Kerala, India sug: subj: Rural Health India Monitoring, Physiologic India India Wearable Sensors Internet of Things Medicine, Ayurvedic Yoga Cloud Computing Diagnosis, Differential ab: Rural India lacks easy access to health practitioners and medical centers, depending instead on community health workers. In these areas, common ailments that are easy to manage with medicines, often lead to medical escalations and even fatalities due to lack of awareness and delayed diagnosis. The introduction of wearable health devices has made it easier to monitor health conditions and to connect doctors and patients in urban areas. However, existing initiatives have not succeeded in providing adequate health monitoring to rural and low-literate patients, as current methods are expensive, require consistent connectivity and expect literate users. Our design considerations address these concerns by providing low-cost medical devices connected to a low-cost health platform, along with personalized guidance based on patient physiological parameters in local languages, and alerts to medical practitioners in case of emergencies. This patient-centric integrated healthcare system is designed to manage the overall health of villagers with real-time health monitoring of patients, to offer guidance on preventive care, and to increase health awareness and self-monitoring at an affordable price. This personalized health monitoring system addresses the health-related needs in remote and rural areas by (1) empowering health workers in monitoring of basic health conditions for rural patients in order to prevent escalations, (2) personalized feedback regarding nutrition, exercise, diet, preventive Ayurveda care and yoga postures based on vital parameters and (3) reporting of patient data to the patient's health center with emergency alerts to doctor and patient. The system supports community health workers in the diagnostic procedure, management, and reporting of rural patients, and functions well even with only intermittent access to Internet. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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