A smart approach towards a mobile e-health monitoring system architecture

Abstract

In the last few years the development of e-health monitoring systems has been significantly increased. The major aim of today's e-health monitoring systems is that a consecutive measuring of patients' vital signs in a home environment to ensure an up-to-date medical record. Further, the aim of the current systems directs to the problem of non-optimal real-time analysis of the data. However, providing the patient with an overview of his/her current health condition in a real-time manner is equally important. Another main drawback of currently proposed e-health monitoring systems design is they are created from the fact that patients are compelled to be within a smart home, rooms, or beds fitted with monitoring devices, which clearly restrict patient activity. In this paper we propose an approach of smart mobile e-health monitoring system based on defining a three level intelligent framework that share and analyze patient's data towards achieving the main aim of our proposed approach which is a smart, mobile and dependable e-health monitoring system. This approach is specified to be a decentralized approach; data is analyzed and decisions are made in each level to provide mobile patients with the crucial feedback of his/her health condition, temporary advice, recommendations and response to any emergency situation that may happen anytime at any place.