Patient Health Management System Using E-Health Architecture in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)

Abstract

Healthcare is the most important concern of many countries in the world. Improving the lives of
patients, especially in weaker parts of the society, which includes elderly, physically and mentally disabled as well as
chronologically ill patients is the most important factor that needs to be improved. E-health systems depending on
modern technology play a vital role in eradicating these problems. Lot of advancement has been done in order to
improve the systems. This paper illustrates the proposed system which uses mobile devices and WSN’s for real time
monitoring and analyses of patient’s health parameters and in return provide medication. The system makes it easy for
doctors and caregivers to immediately act in emergency cases and also provide medication depending on health
parameters without the actual presence of doctor. The system is such that remote monitoring of patients can be done by
diagnosis of the patients can be done by diagnosis of the patient with the help of environmental and medical sensors. The
sensors monitor the health of the patient and in real time collected data is sent to server via the patients smartphone. The
data is received by doctors and caregivers through server which is analysed by the doctors and accordingly medication
is provided back to the patient. The medical history of the patient is stored on cloud for future reference. Also there is a
android application which has a chat module through which the doctor and patient can interact with each other. The
system architecture is such that the patients can be monitored and treats privately at home. Also the system helps in
handling multiple patients simultaneously.