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Health status monitoring is central to the new health-care paradigm that has the following characteristics: wellness promotion, patient-centered care, and anytime, anyplace health care. Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication technologies can be harnessed to build an improved remote health monitoring system. Our contributions in this chapter are as follows: (1) We propose a set of requirements for a remote health monitoring system, and (2) based on the IoT concept and M2M technologies, we develop a functional prototype of a remote monitoring system. Our prototype monitors patient measurements and identifies alert conditions. This system was successfully implemented on ThingWorx, an IoT platform.
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The DICOM View and Alert View were created for testing and for identifying future functionality. Therefore, their details are not presented in this chapter.
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Doss, C., Anwar, M., Manjaro, N. (2016). A Context-Aware Remote Health Monitoring Service for Improved Patient Care. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Troshani, I., Tan, J. (eds) Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25973-4_8
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