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Design and Implementation of Smart Monitoring Systems in Hospital Wagon using...ijtsrd
Nowadays, many researchers are contributing their research in the field of Internet of things IOT , since it is important and attractive technology. IOT means communication between human to device or device to device, anywhere in real time. This communication takes place with the help of different smart sensors which are connected via internet. In the IOT infrastructure different sensors can sense, analyse, transmit and store all the datas on cloud. This paper presents a wearable sensor network system for Internet of Things IoT connected safety and health applications. The wearable sensors on different subjects can communicate with each other and transmit the data to a gateway via a Local Area Network which forms a heterogeneous IoT platform with wifi based medical signal sensing network. It consists of two sections the basic information and condition of patient is collected in the wagon by the means IoT Internet of Things and make it available to hospital before the emergency vehicle reaches the hospital. On the base of such data, the system is able to detect anomalous situations and provide information about the status directly and exclusively to the hospital. The second path is control of traffic lights from the wagon and makes free for its path automatically. This project is to save the time of major late time aspects in more efficient manner and save the life. Mrs. S. Kirthica | Mrs. S. Priyadharsini "Design and Implementation of Smart Monitoring Systems in Hospital Wagon using IoT Technology: A Case Study" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-5 , August 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31731.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/mathemetics/other/31731/design-and-implementation-of-smart-monitoring-systems-in-hospital-wagon-using-iot-technology-a-case-study/mrs-s-kirthica
As elderly population increases day by day caretaking demands are also increasing. Hence patient health monitoring systems are gaining importance these days. This paper is based on monitoring of patients. We have designed and developed a reliable, energy efficient patient monitoring system. It is able to send parameters of patient in real time. It enables the doctors to monitor patient's health parameters (temp, heartbeat, ECG, position) in real time. In the current proposed system the patient health is continuously monitored using different sensors which is connected to the Arduino board. And the acquired data is send to the server using Ethernet shield attached to the Arduino board. If any of the parameter values goes beyond the threshold value an alert is given to the doctor using an Android application installed in the doctor’s smartphone.
The worldwide network of internet of things (IOT) combined with advancements in sensor networks, FID and software platform connects objects of various application fields and technology. IOT is most commonly described as an ecosystem of technologies but it requires necessary components to enable communication between devices and objects. Components being RFID and sensors. Many organization have already implemented IOT. Healthcare industry too have adopted IOT and can be extensively used in the future for the benefit of patients, elderly people and caregivers. A new concept named 'Health Internet of Things (HIOT)' was proposed to exploit sensor technologies and wireless networks in monitoring medical conditions. Also advancements in E textile technologies make the textile multifunctional, adaptive and responsive system which combined with IOT performs functions such as communication, computation and health care benefits. Cloud is used to store, control and retrieve or transform or classify information. The use of cloud based application in healthcare industries is constantly growing to benefit patients so that they can monitor their health, store and share records. This paper aims at developing a dependable, productive, high performance and assured smart healthcare system to deliver service to patients avoiding health risks using e textile technologies
Implementation of electronic stethoscope for online remote monitoring with mo...journalBEEI
The stethoscope is a piece of medical standard equipment that isused by a physician for an initial examination of the patient. Generally, the stethoscopeis used for auscultating sounds which are generated by the workings of organ systems such as cardiac, lung or digestive. In the present condition with the growing number of the patient population, it has an impact on the burden of hospitals and medical practitioners. So that treatment is not optimal, especially patients who need continuous monitoring. Thus it needs a system that can work dynamically, flexibly and remotely based. This paper focuses on the implementation of the electronic stethoscope which is integrated with a mobile phone as the modality of online data transmission through the internet network. The prototype of an electronic stethoscope uses condenser mic, pre-amplifier, wide bandpass filter (20 Hz-1 KHz) and audio amplifier. The maximum gain is 28.63 dB in the 20 Hz-690 Hz frequency range. The signal output can be connected to the android mobile through the jacked phone to be stored in MP3 format and then sent to the cloud server for further monitoring and analysis. The application called “Steder” supports realtime communication between patient and physician for medical check-up, consultation, and discussion activities.
Design and Implementation of Smart Monitoring Systems in Hospital Wagon using...ijtsrd
Nowadays, many researchers are contributing their research in the field of Internet of things IOT , since it is important and attractive technology. IOT means communication between human to device or device to device, anywhere in real time. This communication takes place with the help of different smart sensors which are connected via internet. In the IOT infrastructure different sensors can sense, analyse, transmit and store all the datas on cloud. This paper presents a wearable sensor network system for Internet of Things IoT connected safety and health applications. The wearable sensors on different subjects can communicate with each other and transmit the data to a gateway via a Local Area Network which forms a heterogeneous IoT platform with wifi based medical signal sensing network. It consists of two sections the basic information and condition of patient is collected in the wagon by the means IoT Internet of Things and make it available to hospital before the emergency vehicle reaches the hospital. On the base of such data, the system is able to detect anomalous situations and provide information about the status directly and exclusively to the hospital. The second path is control of traffic lights from the wagon and makes free for its path automatically. This project is to save the time of major late time aspects in more efficient manner and save the life. Mrs. S. Kirthica | Mrs. S. Priyadharsini "Design and Implementation of Smart Monitoring Systems in Hospital Wagon using IoT Technology: A Case Study" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-5 , August 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd31731.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/mathemetics/other/31731/design-and-implementation-of-smart-monitoring-systems-in-hospital-wagon-using-iot-technology-a-case-study/mrs-s-kirthica
As elderly population increases day by day caretaking demands are also increasing. Hence patient health monitoring systems are gaining importance these days. This paper is based on monitoring of patients. We have designed and developed a reliable, energy efficient patient monitoring system. It is able to send parameters of patient in real time. It enables the doctors to monitor patient's health parameters (temp, heartbeat, ECG, position) in real time. In the current proposed system the patient health is continuously monitored using different sensors which is connected to the Arduino board. And the acquired data is send to the server using Ethernet shield attached to the Arduino board. If any of the parameter values goes beyond the threshold value an alert is given to the doctor using an Android application installed in the doctor’s smartphone.
The worldwide network of internet of things (IOT) combined with advancements in sensor networks, FID and software platform connects objects of various application fields and technology. IOT is most commonly described as an ecosystem of technologies but it requires necessary components to enable communication between devices and objects. Components being RFID and sensors. Many organization have already implemented IOT. Healthcare industry too have adopted IOT and can be extensively used in the future for the benefit of patients, elderly people and caregivers. A new concept named 'Health Internet of Things (HIOT)' was proposed to exploit sensor technologies and wireless networks in monitoring medical conditions. Also advancements in E textile technologies make the textile multifunctional, adaptive and responsive system which combined with IOT performs functions such as communication, computation and health care benefits. Cloud is used to store, control and retrieve or transform or classify information. The use of cloud based application in healthcare industries is constantly growing to benefit patients so that they can monitor their health, store and share records. This paper aims at developing a dependable, productive, high performance and assured smart healthcare system to deliver service to patients avoiding health risks using e textile technologies
Implementation of electronic stethoscope for online remote monitoring with mo...journalBEEI
The stethoscope is a piece of medical standard equipment that isused by a physician for an initial examination of the patient. Generally, the stethoscopeis used for auscultating sounds which are generated by the workings of organ systems such as cardiac, lung or digestive. In the present condition with the growing number of the patient population, it has an impact on the burden of hospitals and medical practitioners. So that treatment is not optimal, especially patients who need continuous monitoring. Thus it needs a system that can work dynamically, flexibly and remotely based. This paper focuses on the implementation of the electronic stethoscope which is integrated with a mobile phone as the modality of online data transmission through the internet network. The prototype of an electronic stethoscope uses condenser mic, pre-amplifier, wide bandpass filter (20 Hz-1 KHz) and audio amplifier. The maximum gain is 28.63 dB in the 20 Hz-690 Hz frequency range. The signal output can be connected to the android mobile through the jacked phone to be stored in MP3 format and then sent to the cloud server for further monitoring and analysis. The application called “Steder” supports realtime communication between patient and physician for medical check-up, consultation, and discussion activities.
What is the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).pdfinsightscare
This article mentions what the Internet of Medical Things is, its' importance, & how it is being used in the healthcare industry & a few prominent devices
Real time health monitoring using gprs technologyRahul Sharma
Advances in sensor technology, personal mobile devices, and wireless broadband communications are enabling the development of an integrated personal mobile health monitoring system that can provide patients with a useful tool to assess their own health and manage their personal health information anytime and anywhere. Personal mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobile phones, are becoming more powerful integrated information management tools and play a major role in many people's lives. Here I focus on designing a Mobile health-monitoring system for people who stay alone at home or suffering from Heart Disease. This system presents a complete unified and mobile platform based connectivity solution for unobtrusive health monitoring. Developing a hardware which will sense heart rate and temperature of a patient, using Bluetooth modem all information lively transmitted to smart phone, from smart phone all information transmitted to server using GPRS. At server the received data compared with the standard threshold minimum and maximum value. The normal range of heart rate is 60 to 135 and the temperature of the patient is said to be normal above 95^F and below 104^F. If at all the rate increases above 145 or decreases below 55,it may be fatal and if it crossed this threshold limit then SMS will be sent to the relative of patient and Doctors along with measured values. The build-in GPS further provides the position information of the monitored person. The remote server not only collects physiological measurements but also tracks the position of the monitored person in real time. For transmitting data from Smartphone to the server using GPRS, here we need to create a website on data will be continuously transmitted from Smartphone to the website and from website data will be downloaded continuously on the server.
IOT Based Patient Health Monitoring System Using WIFIijtsrd
Health is given the extreme importance now a days by each country with the advent of the novel corona virus. So in this aspect, an IOT based patient health monitoring system is the best solution for such an epidemic. With an improvement in technology and miniaturization of sensors, there have been attempts to utilize the new technology in various areas to improve the quality of human life. As a result, this project is an attempt to solve a health care problem currently society is facing covid 19.The main objective of the project was to design for to reduce the corona virus, reduce the components and man power. The framework can be utilized to constantly screen the wellbeing parameters of a patient. The body temperature, heart rate and spo2 can be measured from anyplace on the globe utilizing IOT Internet of Things . IOT monitoring of health helps in preventing the spread of disease as well as to get a proper diagnosis of the state of health, even if the doctor is at far distance. We proposed a nonstop checking and control instrument to screen the patient condition and store the patient information’s in server utilizing Wi Fi Module based remote correspondence. Hence the proposed architecture collects the sensor data through ESP32 microcontroller and relays it to the WIFI where it is processed and analyzed for remote viewing. Feedback actions based on the analyzed data can be sent back to the doctor or guardian through Google sheet and or SMS alerts in case of any emergencies. Marupuri Usha Priya | Muthu Pandi K | Priya S | Dr. Kishore Kumar Arjunsingh "IOT Based Patient Health Monitoring System Using WIFI" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd45143.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electronics-and-communication-engineering/45143/iot-based-patient-health-monitoring-system-using-wifi/marupuri-usha-priya
There are a number of scopes for IoT in order to make a difference in lives of patients. The devices can capture as well as monitor related data regarding patient and allows the providers to obtain the insights without bringing the patients visiting. The procedure can assist the patient results as well as preventing the possible communications for the process that involves risk. However, lack of electronic health record (EHR) system integration is one of the major issues faced while using IoT in healthcare. Some of the EHR systems allow the patients importing data into the record. However, it remains limited to a few dominant where the EHR players as well as leaves providers unspecific of the processing data that can be helpful for the organization to use the process. The challenges for interoperability in order to keep data in distinctive medical devices depend on the purpose and ordering physician.
Internet of Things IoT Based Healthcare Monitoring System using NodeMCU and A...ijtsrd
Today Internet has become one of the important parts of daily life. It has changed how people live, work, play and learn. Internet serves for many purposes educations, finance, Business, Industries, Entertainment, Social Networking, etc. The IoT is connected objects to the Internet and used to control of those objects or remote monitoring. A health care monitoring system is necessary to constantly monitor the patient's physiological parameters. The main advantage of this system is that the results can be viewed at any time and place. The doctors can be notified by using mobile phones messages if patient health is abnormal. In this system, heartbeat sensor, temperature sensor and blood pressure sensor are used. The system can analyze the signal to detect normal or abnormal conditions. In the system, the internet of things IoT is becoming a major platform for many services and applications. The IoT is generally considered as connecting objects to the Internet and using that connection for control of those objects or remote monitoring. Khin Thet Wai | Nyan Phyo Aung | Lwin Lwin Htay "Internet of Things (IoT) Based Healthcare Monitoring System using NodeMCU and Arduino UNO" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26482.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electronics-and-communication-engineering/26482/internet-of-things-iot-based-healthcare-monitoring-system-using-nodemcu-and-arduino-uno/khin-thet-wai
An intelligent patient tele monitoring system using android technologyeSAT Journals
Abstract
Healthcare to people anytime and anywhere in the world in a more economic and patient friendly manner. Therefore for increasing the patient care efficiency, there arises a need to improve the patient monitoring devices and make them more mobile. The medical world today faces two basic problems when it comes to patient monitoring. Firstly, the needs of health care’s provider’s presence near the bedside of the patient and secondly, the patient is restricted to bed and wired to large machines. In order to achieve better quality patient care, the above cited problems have to be solved.As telecommunications technologies are advancing, it has become feasible to design more portal vital sign patient tele monitoring systems to acquire, record, display and to transmit the physiological signal from the patient to any place.In this project real time transmission of patient self -tested blood pressure data to doctor is achieved.This system is very convenient to use for doctors and patient. The modern visionary of healthcare industry is to provide better
Keywords: GSM, Android
Real Time Physiological Status Monitorinig through Telemetry System for on Sp...ijtsrd
In todays era, Internet of Things is playing an important role in health care management systems, which is not only for monitoring but also to communicate, stores and display. The prime aim of this study is to design and implement effective real time healthcare monitoring dashboard for on spot accident patients who is injured and went to unconscious state. The proposed system monitor the ECG, EEG, EMG waveforms, Temperature, heart beats etc, and transmit those vital parameters wirelessly through wifi technology. The transmitted patients data is displayed in the PC based application called the central nurse station where PC with the receive wifi acts as hub. This data gets updated into database continuously. From the database of the android application fetches all the updated data, stores and displays it. This enables the doctor to receive the current status of an accident patient in real time. The parameters of a particular patient go beyond a threshold value an automated notification will pop up in doctor android mobile application. This android application can also generate call option if the doctor will not notifynotification messages. Additionally system is also able to generate alarm to notify nurse around for emergency treatment and by using GSM module the patient datas can also be send to the authorized person i.e friends, relatives etc. Ultimate goal of this project is to implement a low cost, high efficient and effective wireless real time system for health monitoring through telemetry system. S. Rabia Jebin | N. Mohamedbeemubeen ""Real Time Physiological Status Monitorinig through Telemetry System for on-Spot-Accident Patients using IoT"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23470.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/bio-mechanicaland-biomedical-engineering/23470/real-time-physiological-status-monitorinig-through-telemetry-system-for-on-spot-accident-patients-using-iot/s-rabia-jebin
What is the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).pdfinsightscare
This article mentions what the Internet of Medical Things is, its' importance, & how it is being used in the healthcare industry & a few prominent devices
Real time health monitoring using gprs technologyRahul Sharma
Advances in sensor technology, personal mobile devices, and wireless broadband communications are enabling the development of an integrated personal mobile health monitoring system that can provide patients with a useful tool to assess their own health and manage their personal health information anytime and anywhere. Personal mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobile phones, are becoming more powerful integrated information management tools and play a major role in many people's lives. Here I focus on designing a Mobile health-monitoring system for people who stay alone at home or suffering from Heart Disease. This system presents a complete unified and mobile platform based connectivity solution for unobtrusive health monitoring. Developing a hardware which will sense heart rate and temperature of a patient, using Bluetooth modem all information lively transmitted to smart phone, from smart phone all information transmitted to server using GPRS. At server the received data compared with the standard threshold minimum and maximum value. The normal range of heart rate is 60 to 135 and the temperature of the patient is said to be normal above 95^F and below 104^F. If at all the rate increases above 145 or decreases below 55,it may be fatal and if it crossed this threshold limit then SMS will be sent to the relative of patient and Doctors along with measured values. The build-in GPS further provides the position information of the monitored person. The remote server not only collects physiological measurements but also tracks the position of the monitored person in real time. For transmitting data from Smartphone to the server using GPRS, here we need to create a website on data will be continuously transmitted from Smartphone to the website and from website data will be downloaded continuously on the server.
IOT Based Patient Health Monitoring System Using WIFIijtsrd
Health is given the extreme importance now a days by each country with the advent of the novel corona virus. So in this aspect, an IOT based patient health monitoring system is the best solution for such an epidemic. With an improvement in technology and miniaturization of sensors, there have been attempts to utilize the new technology in various areas to improve the quality of human life. As a result, this project is an attempt to solve a health care problem currently society is facing covid 19.The main objective of the project was to design for to reduce the corona virus, reduce the components and man power. The framework can be utilized to constantly screen the wellbeing parameters of a patient. The body temperature, heart rate and spo2 can be measured from anyplace on the globe utilizing IOT Internet of Things . IOT monitoring of health helps in preventing the spread of disease as well as to get a proper diagnosis of the state of health, even if the doctor is at far distance. We proposed a nonstop checking and control instrument to screen the patient condition and store the patient information’s in server utilizing Wi Fi Module based remote correspondence. Hence the proposed architecture collects the sensor data through ESP32 microcontroller and relays it to the WIFI where it is processed and analyzed for remote viewing. Feedback actions based on the analyzed data can be sent back to the doctor or guardian through Google sheet and or SMS alerts in case of any emergencies. Marupuri Usha Priya | Muthu Pandi K | Priya S | Dr. Kishore Kumar Arjunsingh "IOT Based Patient Health Monitoring System Using WIFI" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-5 , August 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd45143.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electronics-and-communication-engineering/45143/iot-based-patient-health-monitoring-system-using-wifi/marupuri-usha-priya
There are a number of scopes for IoT in order to make a difference in lives of patients. The devices can capture as well as monitor related data regarding patient and allows the providers to obtain the insights without bringing the patients visiting. The procedure can assist the patient results as well as preventing the possible communications for the process that involves risk. However, lack of electronic health record (EHR) system integration is one of the major issues faced while using IoT in healthcare. Some of the EHR systems allow the patients importing data into the record. However, it remains limited to a few dominant where the EHR players as well as leaves providers unspecific of the processing data that can be helpful for the organization to use the process. The challenges for interoperability in order to keep data in distinctive medical devices depend on the purpose and ordering physician.
Internet of Things IoT Based Healthcare Monitoring System using NodeMCU and A...ijtsrd
Today Internet has become one of the important parts of daily life. It has changed how people live, work, play and learn. Internet serves for many purposes educations, finance, Business, Industries, Entertainment, Social Networking, etc. The IoT is connected objects to the Internet and used to control of those objects or remote monitoring. A health care monitoring system is necessary to constantly monitor the patient's physiological parameters. The main advantage of this system is that the results can be viewed at any time and place. The doctors can be notified by using mobile phones messages if patient health is abnormal. In this system, heartbeat sensor, temperature sensor and blood pressure sensor are used. The system can analyze the signal to detect normal or abnormal conditions. In the system, the internet of things IoT is becoming a major platform for many services and applications. The IoT is generally considered as connecting objects to the Internet and using that connection for control of those objects or remote monitoring. Khin Thet Wai | Nyan Phyo Aung | Lwin Lwin Htay "Internet of Things (IoT) Based Healthcare Monitoring System using NodeMCU and Arduino UNO" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26482.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electronics-and-communication-engineering/26482/internet-of-things-iot-based-healthcare-monitoring-system-using-nodemcu-and-arduino-uno/khin-thet-wai
An intelligent patient tele monitoring system using android technologyeSAT Journals
Abstract
Healthcare to people anytime and anywhere in the world in a more economic and patient friendly manner. Therefore for increasing the patient care efficiency, there arises a need to improve the patient monitoring devices and make them more mobile. The medical world today faces two basic problems when it comes to patient monitoring. Firstly, the needs of health care’s provider’s presence near the bedside of the patient and secondly, the patient is restricted to bed and wired to large machines. In order to achieve better quality patient care, the above cited problems have to be solved.As telecommunications technologies are advancing, it has become feasible to design more portal vital sign patient tele monitoring systems to acquire, record, display and to transmit the physiological signal from the patient to any place.In this project real time transmission of patient self -tested blood pressure data to doctor is achieved.This system is very convenient to use for doctors and patient. The modern visionary of healthcare industry is to provide better
Keywords: GSM, Android
Real Time Physiological Status Monitorinig through Telemetry System for on Sp...ijtsrd
In todays era, Internet of Things is playing an important role in health care management systems, which is not only for monitoring but also to communicate, stores and display. The prime aim of this study is to design and implement effective real time healthcare monitoring dashboard for on spot accident patients who is injured and went to unconscious state. The proposed system monitor the ECG, EEG, EMG waveforms, Temperature, heart beats etc, and transmit those vital parameters wirelessly through wifi technology. The transmitted patients data is displayed in the PC based application called the central nurse station where PC with the receive wifi acts as hub. This data gets updated into database continuously. From the database of the android application fetches all the updated data, stores and displays it. This enables the doctor to receive the current status of an accident patient in real time. The parameters of a particular patient go beyond a threshold value an automated notification will pop up in doctor android mobile application. This android application can also generate call option if the doctor will not notifynotification messages. Additionally system is also able to generate alarm to notify nurse around for emergency treatment and by using GSM module the patient datas can also be send to the authorized person i.e friends, relatives etc. Ultimate goal of this project is to implement a low cost, high efficient and effective wireless real time system for health monitoring through telemetry system. S. Rabia Jebin | N. Mohamedbeemubeen ""Real Time Physiological Status Monitorinig through Telemetry System for on-Spot-Accident Patients using IoT"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23470.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/bio-mechanicaland-biomedical-engineering/23470/real-time-physiological-status-monitorinig-through-telemetry-system-for-on-spot-accident-patients-using-iot/s-rabia-jebin
4 narzędzia do synchronizacji plików w firmieRocket Studio
Wymiana plików pomiędzy pracownikami firmy bez odpowiedniego wsparcia technicznego może być koszmarem. Przedstawiamy 4 narzędzia, które mogą ten proces uczynić łatwym i przyjemnym: Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, RocketCloud.
Implementation Of Real Time IoT Based Health monitoring systemkchakrireddy
The main aim of this project is to interconnect the available medical resources and offer smart, reliable, and effective healthcare service to elderly people. Health monitoring for active and assisted living is one of the paradigms that can use the IOT advantages to improve the elderly lifestyle in this project we present an IOT architecture customized for healthcare applications. The proposed architecture collects the data and relays it to the cloud where it is processed and analyzed. Feedback actions based on the analyzed data can be sent back to the user.
System for monitoring electro-medical equipment installed at homeToscana Open Research
The technology concerns a remote monitoring system for electromedical devices installed in a patient's home that includes a series of functional modules coupled to at least one electromedical device, capable of detecting the operating status of the device
Telehealth care enhancement using the internet of things technologyjournalBEEI
Chronic diseases quickly become broader public health issues because of the difficulty in obtaining appropriate, often long-term health care. So that, it requires the extension of health care for patients with chronic diseases beyond the clinic to include patient’s home and work environment. To reduce costs and provide more appropriate healthcare, we need telehealth care where internet of things (IoT) technology plays an important role. The integration of the IoT and medical science offers opportunities to improve healthcare quality, and efficiency and to better coordinate healthcare delivery at home and in the workplace. In this paper, we present the realization of a remote healthcare system based on the IoT technology. The function of this system is the transmission via a gateway of internet collected data using biomedical sensors node based Arduino board (e.g., temperature, electrical activity of the heart, heart rate monitor). These data will be stored automatically in a cloud. The health can then be monitored by the doctor or patient using a web page in real-time from anywhere at any time in the world using laptops or smart phones, etc. This method also reduces the need for direct interaction between doctor and patient.
SPOC: A Secure and Private-pressuring Opportunity Computing Framework for Mob...ijbuiiir1
Today we have an abundant increase in the development of Information and Technology, which inturn made the Humans body even to carry a Mini- Computer in their Palms with Screen touch, Ex: Smart phone�s & Tablets etc., and parallel with the rich Enhancement in the Wireless Body Sensor Units, it is quite useful to the Enrichment of the Medical Treatment to be perfectly useful, comfortable via Smart Phones Using the networks (2G & 3G) carriers and made the treatment very easy even to the Common person in the society with the low cost money. With these the healthcare Authorities can treat the Patients (medical users) remotely where the patients reside at home or company or school or college or anywhere or at various places they work. This type of a treatment called for MHealthcare (Mobile- Healthcare). Although in the mhealthcare service there are many security and data Private problems to be overcome. Here we have A Secure and Private- Preserving Opportunistic Computing Framework called M-HealthCare, for Mobile-Healthcare Emergency. Using the Smart phone and SPOC, the Software or Hardware like computing power and energy can be gathered opportunistically to process the intensive Personal Health Information (PHI) of the medical user when he/she is in critical situation with minimal Private Disclosure. And also we introduce an efficient usercentric Private access control in SPOC Framework which is based on attribute access control and a new privatepreserving scalar product computation (PPSPC) technique and Makes a medical user (patient) to participate in opportunistic computing in transmitting his PHI data. Elaborated security analysis describes that the proposed SPOC framework can efficiently achieve usercentric Private access control in M-Healthcare emergency. In this paper we introduce Private-Preserving Support for Mobile Healthcare using Message Digest where we have used MD5 algorithm ,which can certainly achieves an efficient way and minimizes the memory consumed and the large amount of PHI data of the medical user (patient) is reduced to a fixed amount of size compared to AES which parallels increases the Speed of the data to be sent to TA without any delay which in-turn the professionals at Healthcare center can get exactly the Recent tablet user PHI data and can save their lives in correct time. As the algorithm is provided tight security in transmitting the patients PHI to TA. In respective performance evaluations with extensive simulations explains the MD (message digest) effectiveness in-term of providing high-reliable Personal Health Information (PHI) process and transmission while reducing the Private disclosure during Mobile-Healthcare emergency
The term Internet of Things (Often abbreviated IOT) was coined more than ten years ago by industry researchers but has emerged into mainstream public view only more recently. Some claim the Internet of Things will completely transform how computer networks are used for the next 10 or 100 years, while others believe Internet Of Things is hype that won't much impact the daily lives of most people.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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1. Integration of Bluetooth-enabled
Sensors into E-Health
Application
for Home Healthcare and
Monitoring.
AGUSTÍN GARCÍA PÉREZ
MASTER THESIS 30 ECTS, ERASMUS 2007-08 SWEDEN
THESIS Nº 1/2008, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
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3. Integration of Bluetooth-enabled Sensors into E-Health Applications for Home
Healthcare and-Monitoring.
Agustín García Pérez
Master Thesis
Subject Category: Technology
Series Number Communication and Programming 2007-08
University College of Borås
School of Engineering
SE-501 90 BORÅS
Telephone +46 33 435 4640
Examiner: Fernando Seoane Martínez
Supervisor: Fernando Seoane Martínez
Client: Högskolan i Borås
Date: 2008 March 28th
Keyword: Blood Pressure, Body Weight, Home Healthcare,
Portable, Bluetooth.
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5. ABSTRACT
I
nformation and telecommunication technologies have been used for medical
applications for almost a century: the radio, the phone and the television have
been used to provide medical assistance to remote areas like boats located in the sea, oil
rigs and other isolated locations. This new use of ICT was given the name of
Telemedicine.
Since the 90`s, health care systems have been looking for new ways and
alternatives to provide health care than the traditional hospital centers. Information
technologies and communication systems have been developed, especially with the
deployment of Internet access to most of residential areas, and have brought health care
to the electronic age; Carving a new term E-Health.
Nowadays Telemedicine is used in several E-health applications for
teleconsultation, telediagnosis, telemonitoring and has been successfully tested in
teleradiology, telecardiology, teledermatology, telepsychiatry, etc. This technology is
used in rural areas, health areas, prisons, home cares, emergencies, wars, etc.
This project implements two different parts. The first one is an user application
to measure weight and blood pressure from the patient using two Bluetooth-enable
measurement devices: the UC-321PBT Precision Health Scale and UA-767PBT Blood
Pressure Monitor. The second one implements a web server to store all patients reports
with updated information in real time. This information can be consulted through a web
page for medical staff in HL7 patient’s report format.
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7. PREFACE
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his final degree work has been done in Borås, Sweden, during the course
2007/2008 under the European Exchange Program Socrates in execution of
the Erasmus agreement between Högskolan I Borås and Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid,
and
more
specifically
the
agreement
between
the
Institutionen
Ingenjörshögskolan and the Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de
Telecomunicación.
The project work has been supervised by Dr. Fernando Seoane Martinez and
with the collaboration with the Department of Telematic Engineering at the Polytechnic
University of Madrid, Spain.
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CONTENTS
ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................................................... III..
T
PREFACE ............................................................................................................................................. V…
CONTENTS
CONTENTS.......................................................................................................................................... - 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT..................................................................................................................... - 3 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ - 5 1.1 RENAL FAILURE AND HOME-MONITORING ...................................................................................
1.2 BLOOD PRESSURE .........................................................................................................................
1.3 BODY WEIGHT ..............................................................................................................................
1.4 E-HEALTH SYSTEM OVERVIEW .....................................................................................................
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2. DATABASE AND INFORMATION ACCESS ............................................................................. - 11 2.1 SYSTEM DATABASE ....................................................................................................................
2.1.1 Patient Local Database.....................................................................................................
2.1.2 Server Database................................................................................................................
2.2 SYSTEM OVERVIEW AND INFORMATION ACCESS ........................................................................
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3. SYSTEM SECURITY
SECURITY..................................................................................................................... - 19 3.1 EDF FILES .................................................................................................................................. - 19 3.2 DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD (DES)
(DES)....................................................................................... - 20 3.3 SECURE SHELL (SSH)
(SSH)................................................................................................................. - 22 4. ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD ............................................................................................ - 25 5. MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
SOFTWARE...................................................................................................... - 27 5.1 COMMUNICATION AND MEASUREMENT SUITE. ..........................................................................
5.2 WIZARD SUITE............................................................................................................................
5.3 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE .............................................................................................................
5.4 PATIENT’S SIDE ..........................................................................................................................
5.4.1 User Interface ...................................................................................................................
5.4.2 User Application ...............................................................................................................
5.5 SERVER APPLICATION ................................................................................................................
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6. REFERENCES
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................... - 59 7. APPENDIX
APPENDIX..................................................................................................................................... - 61 APPENDIX I. UC-321PBT PRECISION HEALTH SCALE SPECIFICATIONS ........................................... - 61 APPENDIX II. UA-767PBT BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR SPECIFICATIONS ....................................... - 62 -
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Ante todo quería agradecer a mis padres, Teresa y Agustín, por todo el apoyo
que me han brindado durante este tiempo y por las facilidades que me han dado para
poder sacarme este título de ingeniero técnico que tanto he deseado.
A mi hermana Teresa, por estar siempre ahí cuando la he necesitado y
empujarme y animarme siempre a seguir adelante.
A Ana, por todo su apoyo durante estos tres últimos años, tanto en los buenos
como en los malos momentos.
A toda mi familia, que siempre ha estado ahí preocupándose y preguntándome
por como iba con la carrera.
A los que también considero como familia, todos mis compañeros y amigos, con
los que he compartido momentos increíbles tanto dentro como fuera de la universidad.
Y por supuesto a Fernando, una estupenda persona tanto como profesor como de
amigo y que me ha dado la posibilidad de llevar a cabo este proyecto de la mejor
manera posible, compartiendo conmigo todo su conocimiento y experiencia.
Por todo ellos y a todos vosotros. ¡¡¡¡ MUCHAS GRACIAS !!!!
Agus
Borås (Sweden) April 1st, 2008
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1. INTRODUCTION
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his project is focused on the field of medicine, more specifically to telemedicine.
The main aim of this work is to develop an E-Health application which allows
patients, who need a continued monitoring of weight and blood pressure, to stay at
home. This way they skip regular visits to the health center or hospital to take
measurements and take the measurements at home.
Figure 1 – Overall system
The implemented application provides with the following features:
1 - The possibility to measure weight and blood pressure through a really
simple and easy interface for the patient
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2 - A local database implemented in the user’s machine. This way all the
measurements are saved in the patient computer.
3 - Secure Communication between the local application suite and remote
server. The data communication is encrypted.
4 - A remote database implemented in a machine at the health center’s. This
way the measurements from all the patients under medical supervision
are stored safely.
5 - Authenticated access for the clinical staff to the measurements on the
electronic patient record.
6 - Data encryption: the data is storaged in the local and the remote
databases encrypted.
7 - Standarized file storaging: the measurements are saved in EDF format
and the EPR are saved and displayed according the HL7
1.1 Renal Failure and Home-monitoring
Renal failure is a condition manifested on millions of persons and it can be an
indication of several different disorders, like for instance Nephrotic Syndrome. The
most common symptom in Nephrotic Syndrome is the excess of fluid in the body, thus
producing oedema formations mainly in the limbs. i.e. limb swelling. Renal failure may
require medication, dietary and lifestyle modification, and in acute cases dialysis.
Dialysis is a medical procedure which is used to provide an artificial
replacement for lost kidney function due to renal failure. Hemodialysis (HD) is the most
common type of dialysis and patients under HD, approximated 1.5 millions worldwide,
must go to a dialysis clinic on a fixed schedule multiple times per week. This kind of
treatment is very disgusting and unpleasant due to the high number of visits. Moreover
sometimes the systematic visits are not even necessary since the kidneys may be
working relatively fine by them-selves. Therefore with a correct knowledge about liquid
accumulation, patients would have control about their body state and schedule the
dialysis visit accordingly to their renal function.
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Peritoneal dialysis (PD) as opposed to HD can be done at home by the patient
him-self, but always under medical supervision and routinely dialysis protocol. An
important part of the protocol is focused to obtain an estimation of the current renal
function to consequently adjust the dialysis settings appropriately to the renal function
needs of the patient. [(González and Ruiz 2007)].
With the goal to increase the medical supervision during PD,, a new home
monitoring system is being developed to supervise the dialysis treatment at home. And
measurements of blood pressure and weight are part of such monitoring system
1.2 Blood Pressure
Blood pressure, strictly speaking: vascular pressure, refers to the force exerted
by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels, and constitutes one of the principal
vital signs. The pressure of the circulating blood decreases as blood moves through
arteries, arterioles, capillaries, and veins; the term blood pressure generally refers to
arterial pressure. Arterial pressure is often measured via a sphygmomanometer, which
uses the height of a column of mercury to reflect the circulating pressure. Although
many modern vascular pressure devices no longer use mercury, vascular pressure values
are still universally reported in millimetres of mercury (mmHg).
The systolic arterial pressure is defined as the peak pressure in the arteries,
which occurs near the beginning of the cardiac cycle; the diastolic arterial pressure is
the lowest pressure (at the resting phase of the cardiac cycle). The average pressure
during the cardiac cycle is reported as mean arterial pressure; the pulse pressure reflects
the difference between the maximum and minimum pressures measured.
Typical values for a resting, healthy adult human are approximately 120 mmHg
(16 kPa) systolic and 80 mmHg (11 kPa) diastolic (written as 120/80 mmHg, and
spoken as "one twenty over eighty") with large individual variations. These
measurements of arterial pressure are not static, they experience natural variations from
one heartbeat to another and throughout the day (in a circadian rhythm). They also
change in response to stress, nutritional factors, drugs, or disease. Hypertension refers to
arterial pressure being abnormally high, as opposed to hypotension, when it is
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abnormally low. Along with body temperature, blood pressure measurements are the
most commonly measured physiological parameters.
Arterial pressures can be measured invasively (by penetrating the skin and
measuring inside the blood vessels) or non-invasively. The non-invasive measurements
are not only simpler and quicker than invasive measurements, they require far less
expertise in fitting and have virtually no complications. On top of that they are less
unpleasant and painful for the patient. However, non-invasive measures may yield
somewhat lower accuracy and small systematic differences in numerical results. Noninvasive measurement methods are more commonly used for routine examinations and
monitoring.
Oscillometric measurements requires less skill than the auscultatory technique,
and may be suitable for use by untrained staff and for automated patient home
monitoring. The cuff is inflated to a pressure initially in excess of the systolic arterial
pressure, and then reduces to below diastolic pressure over a period of about 30
seconds. When blood flow is nil (cuff pressure exceeding systolic pressure) or
unimpeded (cuff pressure below diastolic pressure), cuff pressure will be essentially
constant. It is essential that the cuff size is correct: undersized cuffs may yield too high
a pressure, whereas oversized cuffs yields too low a pressure. When blood flow is
present, but restricted, the cuff pressure, which is monitored by the pressure sensor, will
vary periodically in synchrony with the cyclic expansion and contraction of the brachial
artery, i.e., it will oscillate. Once the values of systolic and diastolic pressure are
computed, not actually measured from the raw data but using an algorithm, then the
results are displayed [(Ruben 2006)].
1.3 Body weight
Although many people prefer the less-ambiguous term body mass, the term body
weight is overwhelmingly used in daily English speech and in biological and medical
science contexts to describe the mass of an organism's body. [(Graham87 2008)] Since
the total mass of the body is water, an increment or decrement in the total water
contents of the body causes a change in the BW of the paint. Therefore BW in can be
used as indicator of body fluid accumulation or Dehydration. [(JForget 2008)].
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1.4 E-health System Overview
The main components of the system are the following:
1 - Bluetooth Weight & Blood Pressure devices.
2 - Software application in the PC of the patient’s home.
3 - Local database and EDF format file storage, with encryption.
4 - Data communication with hospital server via SSH connection encapsulated
in XML format.
5 - Remote storage in encrypted database.
6 - Web server application to access the electronic patient record according to
HL7.
The system is divided in 4 main functional blocks:
1. Databases and information access.
2. System security
3. Electronic clinical reports
4. Management software.
Each of these functional blocks are described in the following sections of this
thesis report, explaining in detail the implementation of each block and the criteria of
choice for the database, communication protocol, file formats, and other important
functional parts of the E-Health application..
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2. DATABASE AND INFORMATION ACCESS
O
ur system consists of two different databases. One local located in the user’s
machine which just store information about one patient and another one located
in the server machine where all patient’s data is stored. Both are implemented with a
Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS) format which data is stored in the
form of tables and the relationship among the data is also stored in the form of tables.
2.1 System Database
A SQL engine has been selected to manage and store information,
more
specifically MySQL and using Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) we can
communicate our application with our MySQL database.
The MySQL engine have been chosen according to the following criteria and
reasoning [(MySQL_Staff 2008)]:
1. Scalability and Flexibility: The MySQL database server supports the capacity
to handle deeply embedded applications with a footprint of only 1MB for
running massive data warehouses holding terabytes of information. Platform
flexibility is almost the main feature of MySQL supporting all versions of
Linux, UNIX, and Windows being supported. And, of course, the open source
nature of MySQL, that allows complete customization for our database server.
2. High Performance: Whether our application, MySQL is a high-speed
transactional processing system or a high-volume web site that services a billion
queries a day. With high-speed load utilities, distinctive memory caches, full
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text indexes, and other performance-enhancing mechanisms, MySQL offers us
the right services for any system.
3. Availability and Reliability: Rock-solid reliability and constant availability are
hallmarks of MySQL.
4. Robust Transactional Support: MySQL offers a powerful transactional
database engine. Features include complete ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated,
durable) transaction support, unlimited row-level locking, distributed transaction
capability, and multi-version transaction support where readers never block
writers and vice-versa. Full data integrity is also assured through server-enforced
referential integrity, specialized transaction isolation levels, and instant deadlock
detection.
5. Strong Data Protection: MySQL offers exceptional security features that
ensure absolute data protection. In terms of database authentication, MySQL
provides powerful mechanisms for ensuring only authorized users have entrered
to the database server, with the ability to block users down to the client machine
level being possible. SSH and SSL support are also provided to ensure safe and
secure connections. This paragraph is very important for this application because
the transactions are done with patient confidential information and security
mechanisms must be implemented.
6. Easy Management: MySQL offers exceptional quick-start capability with the
short time from software download to installation. MySQL also provides a
complete suite of graphical user interface for management, troubleshooting, and
controlling the operation of the MySQL servers from a single workstation.
7. Open Source Freedom and 24 x 7 Support: MySQL is not a typical open
source project. All the software is owned and supported by MySQL AB, and
because of this, a unique cost and support model are available that provides a
unique combination of open source freedom and trusted software with support.
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2.1.1 Patient Local Database
The patient database structure is as follows:
Figure 2 – Patient database structure
Measurement_Data table
IDMeasurement – INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY.
Systolic_BP – INTEGER field with systolic pressure.
Diastolic_BP – INTEGER field with diastolic pressure.
Pulse_BP – INTEGER field with pulse rate.
MAP_BP – INTEGER field with mean arterial pressure.
Weight – INTEGER field with patient weight.
Session_Data table
IDSession – INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY.
M_StartDate – DATETIME field with start date measurement.
M_EndDate – DATETIME field with end date measurement.
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2.1.2 Server Database
The server database structure is as follows:
Figure 3 – Server database structure
Measurement_Data table
IDMeasurement – INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY.
Systolic_BP – INTEGER field with systolic pressure.
Diastolic_BP – INTEGER field with diastolic pressure.
Pulse_BP – INTEGER field with pulse rate.
MAP_BP – INTEGER field with mean arterial pressure.
Weight – INTEGER field with patient weight.
Session_Data table
IDSession – INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY.
M_StartDate – DATETIME field with start date measurement.
M_EndDate – DATETIME field with end date measurement.
R_Date – DATETIME field with reception time on server.
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Patients table
ID – INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY.
PIN – VARCHAR(50) field with patient’s personal identification number.
Sex – CHAR field with patient’s sex.
Birthday – DATETIME field with patient’s birth date.
Name – VARCHAR(50) field with patient’s name.
2.2 System Overview and Information Access
Next figure shows a brief overview of the system and information access.
Figure 4 – Overall vision system
The web server has been design for medical staff to access the Electronic Patient
Clinical Reports (EPR) via a web interface. The web interface is built by JavaServer
Pages. JSP is a Java technology that allows software developers to dynamically generate
HTML, XML or other types of documents in response to a Web client request. The
technology allows Java code and certain pre-defined actions to be embedded into static
content.
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Web pages format have been defined as follows:
index.jsp – This page is used to log medical staff. It shows login field and
password field and send the information written to redirect.jsp
Figure 5 – Web page “index.jsp”
redirect.jsp – This site doesn’t show anything to the user. It is just to check if
medical staff login and password are correct. In case to be correct, the page
redirect to IDRequest.jsp, otherwise it redirect to index.jsp
IDRequest.jsp – This site is only accessible after authentication. It shows a ID
Patient field where medical staff has to write the personal identification number
of the patient they want to see the EPR.
Figure 6 – Web page “IDRequest.jsp”
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showReport.jsp – This site is only accessible after authentication. In case of
correct identification number the page show the CDA, otherwise it shows an
error message “Non patient found with this ID”. This page takes the electronic
clinical report in XML format from reports and executes a Extensible Stylesheet
Language Transformations (XSLT) with cda.xsl to obtain a HTML with the
EPR of the patient. Then the EPR is shown to the medical staff. The complete
EPR, including graphics are shown in Software Management chapter.
Figure 7 – Web page “showReport.jsp”
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The Web application flowchart is as follows:
Figure 8 – Web application flowchart
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3. SYSTEM SECURITY
S
ince storage of data contains the measurements of weight and blood pressure of
patients, Confidentiality and security is one of the most important elements that we
has been taken in account in the implementation of this E-health application. Therefore
3.1 EDF Files
In the user’s machine, information is stored in two different places; a MySQL
Database which provides its own security mechanisms and in EDF+ format files. The
European Data Format (EDF) is a simple and flexible format for exchange and storage
of multichannel biological and physical signals. The version used in this application is
EDF+, developed in 2002 and is largely compatible to EDF, but can also contain
interrupted recordings, annotations, stimuli and events. Therefore, EDF+ can store any
medical recording such as EMG, Evoked potentials, ECG, as well as automatic and
manual analysis results such as delta plots, QRS parameters and sleep stages. In our
case the storage of our information is easier because we need to save just weight and
blood pressure measurements. The EDF+ file is storaged in ASCII and it contain a file
format header that contains information about the EDF format file, the patient, the
recording contained in the file, the type and length of the measurements, number of
channels: sampling rate, etc. After the format header all measurement data is stored in
ASCII. Next figure shows in detail the EDF+ format file.
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Figure 9 – EDF Header
3.2 Data Encryption Standard (DES)
Since due to privacy laws about clinical data, it must be keep confidential
anywhere where it is stored, EDF files are encrypted with DES because [(Kemp and
Olivan 2003)]. Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a cipher, a method for encrypting
information, selected as an official Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) for
the United States in 1976
DES is the archetypal block cipher, an algorithm that takes a fixed-length string
of plaintext bits and transforms it through a series of complicated operations into
another cipher text bit string of the same length. In the case of DES, the block size is 64
bits. DES also uses a key to customize the transformation, so that decryption can
supposedly only be performed by those who know the particular key used to encrypt.
The key ostensibly consists of 64 bits; however, only 56 of these are actually used by
the algorithm. Eight bits are used solely for checking parity, and are thereafter
discarded. Hence the effective key length is 56 bits, and it is usually quoted as such.
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There are 16 identical stages of processing, termed rounds. Before the main
rounds, the block is divided into two 32-bit halves and processed alternately; this crisscrossing is known as the Feistel scheme. The Feistel structure ensures that decryption
and encryption are very similar processes. The only difference is that the subkeys are
applied in the reverse order when decrypting. The rest of the algorithm is identical. This
greatly simplifies implementation, particularly in hardware, as there is no need for
separate encryption and decryption algorithms [(Tlomak 2008)]. The Feistel structure is
described in the following figure:
Figure 10 – Feistel structure of DES
The red + symbol denotes the exclusive-OR (XOR) operation. The F-function
scrambles half a block together with some of the key. The output from the F-function is
then combined with the other half of the block, and the halves are swapped before the
next round. After the final round, the halves are not swapped; this is a feature of the
Feistel structure which makes encryption and decryption similar processes [(Barrett,
Silverman et al. 2001)].
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3.3 Secure Shell (SSH)
To be consistent with the level of data confidentiality, the implemented security
is not only limited to the data storaging at patient’s machine, the client to server
communication it is also secured. To obtain a secured data communication it is needed:
1st to encrypt messages in the source prior to transmission and 2nd decrypt the received
data in the destination. .
To implement this secure communication the client and server applications must
encrypt and decrypt the data with a common key only known by each of them [(Barrett,
Silverman et al. 2001)].
To implement secure communications there are several different protocols:
SSH: Used instead of Telnet
SSL: Mainly used for hypertext but also support other protocols.
TSL: Quite similar to SSL
HTTPS: Only used for hypertext communications.
This application uses SSH protocol. Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol
that allows data to be exchanged over a secure channel between two computers.
Encryption provides confidentiality and integrity of data. SSH uses public-key
cryptography to authenticate the remote computer and allow the remote computer to
authenticate the user, if necessary.
SSH is typically used to log into a remote machine and execute commands, but it
also supports tunnelling, forwarding arbitrary TCP ports and X11 connections; it can
transfer files using the associated SFTP or SCP protocols.
An SSH server, by default, listens on the standard TCP port 22. An SSH client
program is typically used for establishing connections to an SSHD daemon accepting
remote connections. Both are commonly implemented on most modern operating
systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OpenVMS. Proprietary,
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freeware and open source versions of various levels of complexity and completeness
exist.
Figure 11 – SSH Security system
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4. ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD
T
he management of health services through telematic services requires
standardization of messages, formats, encoding and structure of medical
records to allow interoperability between different health information systems.
For the development of a new standard to define an electronic clinical report
there are several issues to pay attention to:
Contents and structure standards (architecture).
Clinical data representation (encoding).
Communication standard (messages format).
Data security, confidentiality and authentication.
Nowadays there are several projects and standards focused in ruling the
approach to deal with the issue mentioned above, but the following six are the most
important.
OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Arquitecture)
GEHR (Good European Health Record)
HL7-CDA (Clinical Document Architecture)
openEHR
XML/Ontology
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Among all the possible standard it was decided to use in this application the
HL7-CDA. HL7 was selected by its singular focus on the interface requirements of the
entire health care organization, while most other standard focus only on the
requirements of a particular department. Moreover, on an ongoing basis, HL7 develops
a set of protocols on the fastest possible track that is both responsive and responsible to
its members. The group addresses the unique requirements of the already installed
hospital and departmental systems, some of which use mature technologies.
HL7 learned long ago that while data can be exchanged between systems, its
usefulness is compromised unless there is a shared, well defined, and unambiguous
knowledge of the meaning of the data transferred. Since much of the data being
transferred is coded, either by HL7 or other organizations, HL7 began a focused effort
via the formation of the Vocabulary Technical Committee to organize and maintain
vocabulary terms used in its messages [(HL7_Staff)].
Moreover Health Level Seven has been actively working with XML technology
since the formation of the SGML/XML Special Interest Group which has been working
in recommendations on use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) standards for all of
HL7's platform independent healthcare specifications and developing structured
document standards for healthcare.
The expanded capability of the Reference Information Model (RIM) includes the
use of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), a model for exchanging clinical
documents. Derived from the RIM, the CDA converts documents into a format which
can be read by machines as well as by humans. The CDA standards being developed by
HL7 can be used to represent clinical documents such as progress notes, discharge
summaries, and results of physical examinations.
The CDA organizing framework can be used to ensure clear, unambiguous
representation of all patient information which is input into a computer and displayed
via any software adhering to the same standard. Thus, by following the HL7 CDA, any
system architect will be able to design an EPR which can be transmitted over computer
networks and can be automatically integrated into any other EPR written according to
the HL7 CDA standard.
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5. MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
I
n terms of management software the application can be split in three: the
original application, the user application and the server application. The first
one is the point from which we have developed our final application. The second
application is a wizard suite which guides the patient through the measurement protocol
of weight and blood pressure and consequently sends the information from the local
machine to a server, and the third one is an application running in the server side, which
receives the data from patients, and stores it in remote database, updating the patients’
EPR.
5.1 Communication and Measurement Suite.
From existing source code for a primitive communication application available
in Visual Basic 6.0, the first step was to develop an new application in Visual Studio
.NET to show measures taken from bluetooth weight scale and bluetooth blood pressure
monitor.
The main goal of this step was twofold: first to get acquainted with the
measurement system and its communication protocol and second to improve interface
of the primitive application implementing additional navigation functionalities. This
way , the resulting application can display weight and blood pressure measurements
simultaneously and it is possible to navigate along measures that had been taken
previously. This navigation functionality was obtained by using an SQL Server to saved
all measurement data.
To update from 6.0 to .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET was used to migrate
the application. The migration result from the automatic conversion tool was acceptable
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but several problems appeared with the management of COM port. The way to solve
these problems was to delete COM port application created by the migration tool and
create a new COM port application in .NET which specifications, configurations and
operation were different.
The Communication Setting panel allows the user to configure the COM port,
Baud rate, parity, etc. The setting panel is as follows.
Figure 12 – Configuration COM panel
The main panel shows the weight and blood pressure measurements. Once the COM
port configuration has been set, the measurements are received through the Bluetooth
serial port and then they are displayed on the panel. In the next figure an example of
main panel with measurements is shown.
Figure 13 – A&D application modified
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In the figure it is possible to see how all information from the measurements is
displayed. Information like the measurement time, the measurement received time,
serial number of measurement devices and even the Bluetooth Address of them.
Arrows are located under the measurement display, allowing the user to navigate
through history of measurements displaying each moment, complete information about
that specific measurement.
5.2 Wizard Suite
From here onwards the description focuses on the Wizard suite. This software
tool is intended for patients at home. The wizard uses a user machine to measure and
transmit the measurements and a server application to receive and process data from
patients in server side.
The usage cases for patients, medical staff and administrator are as follows:
Figure 14 – Use case for patient
Figure 15 – Use case for medical staff
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Figure 16 – Use case for administrator in user machine
Figure 17 – Use case for administrator in server machine
5.3 System architecture
In order to have an overview of the system, the skeleton of the application is
divided in different subsystems, which are responsible of a specific functional part of
the system. Each subsystem interacts, itself, with others subsystems in a unidirectional
or bidirectional way as necessary in each case.
Based on this architecture, the subsystems defined previously in the general
architecture of the system will be explained in detail in the following sections.
In the following figure, we can see a High-level overview of the complete
system.
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Figure 18 – High-level overview of system.
5.4 Patient’s Side
The diagraman in the following figure contains connections between the different
components in the patient’s side.
Figure 19 – Connection component diagram at the patient’s side.
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The User Interface subsystem is responsible of data measurements, transmission
and locally stored measurements, and it is built up by the following subsystems: Data
Measurement, Save Measurements and the Transmission Measurement subsystem.
The Data Measurement subsystem is a wizard which guide the user through this
process, the Saved Measurements subsystem is responsible to save data locally the data
and the Transmission Measurement subsystem connects the patient’s application with
the server through and SSH connection and sends the measurements
Figure 20 – User Interface subsystem
In the following sections each of the components of the subsystems and the
connection diagrams are described with more detail. The application source code is also
explained to facilitate understanding internal operation of the subsystems.
5.4.1 User Interface
This application has been developed to support the patient to follow the
measurement protocol as indicated by the physician in charge.
In the case of Peritoneal Dialisys as part of the treatment, the patient’s weight
and blood pressure have to be carefully checked by appropriately qualified medical staff
in order to assess on the effectiveness of the treatment.
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But renal patients are not the only who need to check their weight and blood
pressure regularly. People who have suffered a Heart Faluire, high risk pregnancy,
cerebrovascular accident, hyperlipemia, etc. also need to have a continued care which
involves measurements of weight and blood pressure.
In order to facilitate as much as possible weight and blood pressure
measurements and assuming that the application will be installed in user’s machine at
the patient’s home, a very intuitive and simple graphic interface has been developed.
With such simple graphical interface the risk of mistakes by the patient is reduced to a
very large extend. In the following figures and sequentially the different steps of the
Wizard interface are shown and explained:
Figure 21 – First patient’s Wizard panel
The first panel, see figure above, appears when the patient starts the application.
It just explains that the wizard will guide the user along the measurement process and
that the patient should have weight scale and blood pressure monitor near by. After that
the patient should click on the button ‘NEXT” to proceed with the next panel.
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Figure 22 – Second patient’s Wizard panel
The second panel, see figure above, appears after the patient has clicked the
button “NEXT” in the first panel, that means that the patient is ready to start with the
measurements. The animated image shows where the patient has to press to measure his
blood pressure.
Figure 23 – Third patient’s Wizard panel
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After blood pressure is measured, the application continues automatically to the
next wizard panel. The third panel, see figure in previous page shows to the patient
where to press in the weight scale to prepare the scale for measurement and notifies him
to wait until the screen shows 0,0 to measure
Figure 24 – Fourth patient’s Wizard panel
When the Wizard application receives the weight information from the weight
scale, it shows the forth panel, see figure above. This panel reports to the patient that
data is being stored in the local machine’s database and it is also being sent to the server
for remote storaging.
The last panel of the Wizard application reports to the patient that the
information has been successfully stored and sent. The patient has just to click the
button “FINISH” to exit the wizard.
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Figure 25 – Fourth patient’s Wizard panel
In the case that the information from the measurements can not be sent to the
server, either for an unavailable internet connection or because the application in the
server is down, the program will show the following message:
Figure 26 – Error message of patient’s wizard.
IMPORTANT – Sometimes, the connection between the weight scale or blood
pressure monitor with the local machine need to be updated so the PIN code is required
by the local machine. This code is 39121440.
5.4.2 User Application
The patient’s side application has been programmed in Microsoft Visual Studio
2005 version 8.0.50727.42. The main class, Aplicacion.vb, establishes a Bluetooth
connection weight scale-local machine and blood pressure monitor-local machine. Once
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the connection is established, and during the second and third Wizard’s panels, the
application gets all the measurement data.
Configuration parameters for patient identification are stored in a local file
“dataPatient.INI”. This file has to be different for each patient and the file contains the
patient ID, name, sex and birth date.
Configuration parameters for the Bluetooth connection are stored in the file
“BTTEST.INI”. In this file the baud rate, length, parity, stop bit and port are set.
To facilitate the understanding of the different subsystems, below, the
component diagrams and the code source of the main function used in the Wizard
application are explained.
The Component diagrams allow the application designer to go one step further
in the level of design. This diagrams arec considered like an intermediate step between
subsystem diagrams and class diagrams.
Figure 27 – Component deployment diagram for Saved Measurements subsystem.
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Figure 28 – Component deployment diagram for Database Handler subsystem.
After measurement time, the user application the saves data in the local database
and creates an encrypted EDF file and measurement log which are also saved. To save
the data, the main class calls functions located in “Save.vb”.
The main functions are called from the main application and they are as follows:
Sub SaveData(ByVal pesoNumerico As String, ByVal sys As Short, ByVal
dia As Short, ByVal pulse As Short, ByVal MAP As Short,
ByVal startTimeMeasurement As Date, ByVal
endTimeMeasurement As Date)
'Here me make a measurements log.
FileOpen(1, ".DatosMeasurements.log", OpenMode.Append)
PrintLine(1, Str(sys) + " " + Str(dia) + " " + Str(pulse) + "
" + Str(MAP) + " " + Str(pesoNumerico) + " " +
startTimeMeasurement + " " + endTimeMeasurement)
FileClose(1)
' Create connection
Dim conn As MySQLConnection
conn=New MySQLConnection(New MySQLConnectionString("localhost",
"patient", "Login name", "password",
3306).AsString)
'Open connection with data base
conn.Open()
Dim SentenciaSql As String
Dim instruccion As MySQLCommand
SentenciaSql = "INSERT INTO session_data(M_DateStart,
M_DateEnd) VALUES('" +
CreateDateMySQL(startTimeMeasurement)+ "','" +
CreateDateMySQL(endTimeMeasurement) + "')"
instruccion = New MySQLCommand(SentenciaSql, conn)
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instruccion.ExecuteNonQuery()
SentenciaSql = "INSERT INTO measurement_data(Systolic_BP,
Diastolic_BP, Pulse_BP, MAP_BP, Weight) VALUES
('" + Str(sys) + "','" + Str(dia) + "','" +
Str(pulse) + "','" + Str(MAP) + "','" +
Str(pesoNumerico) + "')"
instruccion = New MySQLCommand(SentenciaSql, conn)
instruccion.ExecuteNonQuery()
End Sub
Source Code 1 – Sava_Data function.
This function creates “Measurement.log”, a log file which is stored in local
machine just with the weight, systolic, diastolic, pulse and MAP information that is
passed
to
the
function
through
value
parameters.
Just
below,
using
“MySQLDriverCS.dll” establishes a database connection, creating queries and
executing them.
After creating a log and saving the data in the local database, the application
creates the encrypted EDF file. At first, a plain text EDF file is created in a temporal
folder and after this, the function “EncryptFile” is invoked.
Sub EncryptFile(ByVal sInputFilename As String, ByVal sOutputFilename
As String)
Const sSecretKey As String = "Password"
Dim fsInput As New FileStream(sInputFilename, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read)
Dim fsEncrypted As New FileStream(sOutputFilename,
FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)
Dim DES As New DESCryptoServiceProvider()
'Estabish secret key for DES algorithm.
'It is neccesary a 64 bit key
DES.Key = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sSecretKey)
'Establish the initialization vector
DES.IV = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sSecretKey)
'Create DES encryption
Dim desencrypt As ICryptoTransform = DES.CreateEncryptor()
Dim cryptostream As New CryptoStream(fsEncrypted, desencrypt,
CryptoStreamMode.Write)
Dim bytearrayinput(fsInput.Length - 1) As Byte
fsInput.Read(bytearrayinput, 0, bytearrayinput.Length)
'Write DES file encrypted
cryptostream.Write(bytearrayinput, 0, bytearrayinput.Length)
cryptostream.Close()
End Sub
Source Code 2 – EncryptFile function.
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Parameter sInputFilename is the location and source file’s name above, non
encrypted. sOutputFilename is the location and destination file’s name already
encrypted with DES.
Figure 29 – Component deployment diagram for Transmission Measurements subsystem.
When all the information has been stored on the local machine, the application
starts the process that creates the XML file and sends the file to the server via SSH
(using Jscape library). For safety reasons, XML files contents just the ID patient number
and never other fields like name, birth date, etc. An example of the produce XML files
is shown below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Data>
<MeasurementType>001</MeasurementType>
<PersonalData>
<PIN>51092458M</PIN>
</PersonalData>
<MeasurementData>
<StartDataMeasurement>2008-02-16 14:55:8</StartDataMeasurement>
<EndDataMeasurement>2008-02-16 14:56:26</EndDataMeasurement>
<Systolic>108</Systolic>
<Diastolic>62</Diastolic>
<Pulse>49</Pulse>
<MAP>80</MAP>
<Weight>7130</Weight>
</MeasurementData>
</Data>
Source Code 3 – XML example.
The functions that implement the creation of the XML file and its subsequent
transmission to the server are CreateXML and SendData. The source code is as follows:
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Sub CreateXML(ByVal pesoNumerico As String, ByVal sys As Short, ByVal
dia As Short, ByVal pulse As Short, ByVal MAP As Short,
ByVal startTimeMeasurement As Date, ByVal
endTimeMeasurement As Date)
Dim srLector As StreamReader = New
StreamReader("dataPatient01.INI")
Dim PIN, name, fileName As String
Dim sex As Char
Dim birthday As Date
save = New Save
PIN = srLector.ReadLine()
sex = srLector.ReadLine()
birthday = srLector.ReadLine()
name = srLector.ReadLine()
Dim swEscritor As StreamWriter
fileName = ".tmp" + PIN.ToString + startTimeMeasurement.
ToShortDateString.Replace("/", "-").ToString +
startTimeMeasurement.ToLongTimeString.Replace(":",
"-").ToString + ".xml"
swEscritor = New StreamWriter(fileName)
swEscritor.WriteLine("<?xml version=" + Chr(34) + "1.0" +
Chr(34) + " encoding=" + Chr(34) + "UTF-8" + Chr(34) + "?>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<Data>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<MeasurementType>001</MeasurementType>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<PersonalData>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<PIN>" + PIN + "</PIN>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("</PersonalData>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<MeasurementData>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<StartDataMeasurement>" + save.CreateDate
MySQL(startTimeMeasurement) +
"</StartDataMeasurement>")
swEscritor.WriteLine(" <EndDataMeasurement>" + save.CreateDate
MySQL(endTimeMeasurement) +
"</EndDataMeasurement>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<Systolic>" + Str(sys) + "</Systolic>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<Diastolic>" + Str(dia) + "</Diastolic>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<Pulse>" + Str(pulse) + "</Pulse>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<MAP>" + Str(MAP) + "</MAP>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("<Weight>"+Str(pesoNumerico)+"</Weight>")
swEscritor.WriteLine(" </MeasurementData>")
swEscritor.WriteLine("</Data>")
swEscritor.Close()
Dim ContadorDeArchivos As System.Collections.ObjectModel.
ReadOnlyCollection(Of String)
Dim sended As Boolean
Dim files As String()
files = Directory.GetFiles(".tmp")
ContadorDeArchivos = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(".tmp")
Do
sended = SendData(files(ContadorDeArchivos.Count - 1))
If (sended = True) Then
File.Delete(files(ContadorDeArchivos.Count - 1))
End If
ContadorDeArchivos=My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(".tmp")
Loop Until ContadorDeArchivos.Count = 0 Or sended = False
End Sub
Source Code 4 – CreateXML function.
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In
the
source
code
above,
is
really
important
to
explain
field:
“MeasurementType”.
Currently the server application can receive any file regardless of the value of
the field “Measurement Type” but it is only programmed to process files with weight
and blood pressure measurements. It is intended that in the near future it will receive
files with other type of measurement e.g. Electrical Bioimpedance, ECGs.. For Blood
Pressure and Weigth the “MeasurementType” field is 001.
Private Function SendData(ByVal fileName As String) As Boolean
Try
Dim hostname As String
hostname = "quartz.ih.utb.hb.se"
Dim username As String
username = "login name"
Dim password As String
password = "password"
Dim ssh As SshParameters
ssh = New SshParameters(hostname, username, password)
ssh.Port = 25
Dim sftp As Sftp
sftp = New Sftp(ssh)
sftp.LicenseKey = "SSH Factory for .NET License Key"
sftp.Connect()
Dim archivo As FileInfo
archivo = New FileInfo(fileName)
Dim pathComplete As String
pathComplete = "Program Files (x86)/Apache Software
Foundation/Tomcat 5.5/webapps/Medical/
incomming/" + fileName.Substring(6).ToString
sftp.Upload(archivo, pathComplete)
sftp.Disconnect()
Return True
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show("Information could not be sent to Server. It
will be sent next time you use the program")
Return False
End Try
End Function
Source Code 5 – SendData function.
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The following flow diagram show how the Wizard application works from the
beginning when patient starts the application until all the measurements are taken.
Figure 30 – Flow diagram of the Wizard application.
SendData function in Send class is the function establishes SSH connection with
the server through Jscape.ssh.dll.
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5.5 Server Application
On the remote server, there is a java application running. It is located in same
directory that the web server and it is continually checking the incoming folder. If some
file is detected in this folder, the application processes it.
Incoming files are XML extension, so the best way to process them is through an
xml parser. Below, The file system server and function, contents, specification, etc. of
each folder are explained. Root directory structure is as follows.
Figure 31 – Root directory organization.
The “src” folder contains the *.java files with the source code of our application.
From files located in this folder, all the other paths are referenced. For an easier
understanding of the application, source code and different classes will be explained
below.
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This class diagram shows the relationship between classes.
Figure 32 – Class diagram of the server application.
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import java.io.*;€
public class Application {
/**
* @author Agustin Garcia Perez
* @version 1.0 beta
*/
public static void main(String[] args){
System.out.println("Program running");
while(true){
File folder = new File("./incomming");
String[] files = folder.list();
if(files.length != 0)
{
FileClasifier clasifier = new FileClasifier
("./incomming/" + files[0]);
File tmp = new File("./incomming/" + files[0]);
tmp.delete();
}
}
}
}
Source Code 6 – Application Class.
This is the main class of our application. First it shows a message reporting that
the application is running. After that it executes an infinite loop, testing “incomming”
folder, where new files are uploaded from user machines. If some file is detected in this
folder, a new FileClasifier object is created. Once the file is processed, it is removed
from this folder.
import
import
import
import
import
import
java.io.*;
java.nio.channels.*;
javax.xml.parsers.*;
org.xml.sax.Attributes;
org.xml.sax.SAXException;
org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class FileClasifier extends DefaultHandler implements
Serializable{
/**
* @author Agustin Garcia Perez
* @version 1.0 beta
*/
private boolean esMeasurementType = false;
private int MeasurementType = 0;
private String fileName;
File tmp;
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public FileClasifier (String uri){
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
try {
fileName=uri;
factory.setValidating(true);
SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
saxParser.parse(uri, this);
}catch (Throwable t) {
t.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void startDocument() throws SAXException{}
public void endDocument() throws SAXException{
tmp = new File(fileName);
if(MeasurementType==1){
XMLHandler manejador = new XMLHandler(fileName);
}else{
try{
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileName);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("./files/"
+
fileName.substring(12));
FileChannel cFuente = fis.getChannel();
FileChannel cDestino = fos.getChannel();
cFuente.transferTo(0,cFuente.size(),cDestino);
fis.close();
fos.close();
}catch (IOException ex) {}
}
}
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String
qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException{
if (qName.equals("MeasurementType")) {
esMeasurementType = true;
}
}
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String
qName) throws SAXException{}
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws
SAXException{
String contenido="";
for(int i=0;i<length;i++){
contenido = contenido + ch[i+start];
}
if(esMeasurementType){
MeasurementType = Integer.parseInt(contenido);
esMeasurementType=false;
}
}
}
Source Code 7 – FileClasifier Class.
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The Builder of this class receives as parameter the file name that has to be
parsed. As explained in previous pages, there is a field to identify the measurement
types contained in each file: “MeasurementType”.
Since the server processes XML files to use a SAX parser is easy, powerful and
intuitive. When a XML file is being parsed for the first time, the label
<MeasurementType> is the first one to be checked. To differentiate between different
type of measurements different codes were assigned to different files according to the
containing information.
Figure 33 – Codes for measure types.
The behind choice of these codes for this different measurement types is because
other projects are being developing in parallel using bioimpedance measurements.
Indeed, new codes can be added in the future for another kind of measures.
The operation of this class is very simple. If MeasurementType is equal to 001,
an XMLHandler object is created, otherwise the file is moved to “files” folder.
XMLHandler is another SAX parser class, which in this case, extract information from
the XML file and stores it in a “Patient” object. Below, an extract of Patient class is
shown where we can see how the data is managed in it. Functions are omitted because
of its simplicity (get and set).
public class Patient {
/**
* @author Agustin Garcia Perez
* @version 1.0 beta
*/
String PIN;
String sex;
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String birthday;
String name;
String startDataMeasurement;
String endDataMeasurement;
String dataRecieved;
int systolic;
int diastolic;
int pulse;
int MAP;
int weight;
Source Code 8 – Patient Class.
In the XMLHandler class, it is important to note that all fields to fill Patient
object are treated with the exception of name, birth date and sex. The reason behind
these fields not being transmitted is just a security reason. Otherwise, someone who gets
the XML file (sniffers), would be able to link data and patient. The method we have
used to solve this data omission is executing a query to database. Below we can see the
source code included in the XMLHandler to ask the database for the patient’s data and
after the code to save the new measurement.
public class XMLHandler extends DefaultHandler implements
Serializable{
/**
* @author Agustin Garcia Perez
* @version 1.0 beta
*/
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String
qName)throws SAXException{
if (qName.equals("Data")) {
DataBaseSaver saver = new DataBaseSaver(patient);
CDAHandler manejador = new CDAHandler(patient);
GraphicGenerator graphic = new GraphicGenerator(patient);
}
if (qName.equals("PIN")) {
patient.setPIN(PIN);
try{
Connection conn = null;
String login = "login";
String pass = "password";
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
String url=("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/server");
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, login, pass);
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
String query = "SELECT * FROM patients p WHERE p.PIN='"
+ PIN + "'";
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ResultSet resultado = stmt.executeQuery(query);
resultado.first();
patient.setSex(resultado.getString("Sex"));
patient.setBirthday(resultado.getString("Birthday"));
patient.setName(resultado.getString("Name"));
conn.close();
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}
}
....
}
Source Code 9 – XMLHandler Class.
As we can see, when the <Data> label is detected, three new objects are created.
DataBaseSaver, CDAHandler and GraphicGenerator.
DataBaseSaver is the class responsible for saving the data included in Patient
object in the remote database. Patient object is provided as parameter and after
connection to the database and authentication, the application ask for patientID with
PIN. When patientID is recover from patients table, the queries are executed.
import java.sql.*;
public class DataBaseSaver {
/**
* @author Agustin Garcia Perez
* @version 1.0 beta
*/
public DataBaseSaver(Patient patient){
try{
Connection conn = null;
String login = "login";
String pass = "password";
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
String url=("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/server");
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, login, pass);
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
//Query to ask for patientID
String query = "SELECT * FROM patients p WHERE p.PIN='" +
patient.getPIN() + "'";
ResultSet resultado = stmt.executeQuery(query);
resultado.first();
//Query to save session data
String tmp = resultado.getString("Id");
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query = "INSERT INTO session_data(M_DateStart, M_DateEnd,
R_Date) VALUES ('" + patient.getStartDataMeasurement()
+ "','" + patient.getEndDataMeasurement() + "','" +
patient.getDataRecieved() + "')";
stmt.executeUpdate(query);
//Query to save measurement data
query = "INSERT INTO measurement_data(Systolic_BP,
Diastolic_BP, Pulse_BP, MAP_BP, Weight, IdPatient)
VALUES ('" + patient.getSystolic() + "','" +
patient.getDiastolic() + "','" + patient.getPulse() +
"','" + patient.getMAP() + "','" +
patient.getWeight()/100 + "','" + tmp + "')";
stmt.executeUpdate(query);
conn.close();
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e);
}
}
}
Source Code 10 – DataBaseSaver Class.
Since one of the main features of this E-health application is to allow
teleconsultation in real time, it is very important that each time a patient measures his
weight and blood pressure the EPR is inmediatly updated. A new record line is included
in the patient’s report and the figures are updated in the CDA as well.
The information format included is as follows and source code to include it also.
Systolic: 124 Diastolic: 62 Pulse: 57 Weight: 7260 Date of measurement: 2008-3-5 16:59:41
Figure 34 – Information added to the CDA.
import java.io.*;
public class CDAHandler implements Serializable {
/**
* @author Agustin Garcia Perez
* @version 1.0 beta
*/
public CDAHandler (Patient patient){
try {
FileReader fileR = new FileReader("./reports/" +
patient.getPIN() + ".xml");
FileWriter fileW = new FileWriter("./reports/" +
patient.getPIN() + "copy.xml");
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BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(fileW);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(fileR);
String cadena="";
do{
cadena = reader.readLine();
writer.write(cadena + "n");
if(cadena.equals("<caption>Blood pressure and weight
measurements</caption>"))
{
writer.write(reader.readLine() + "n");
writer.write("<item><content>Systolic: " +
patient.getSystolic() + " Diastolic: " +
patient.getDiastolic() + " Pulse: " +
patient.getPulse() + " Weight: " + patient.getWeight()
+ " Date of measurement: " +
patient.getStartDataMeasurement
() + "</content></item>n");
}
}while(!cadena.equals("</levelone>"));
reader.close();
writer.close();
File firstFile = new File("./reports/" + patient.getPIN() +
"copy.xml");
File lastFile = new File("./reports/" + patient .getPIN() +
".xml");
lastFile.delete();
firstFile.renameTo(lastFile);
firstFile.delete();
}catch (Exception e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Source Code 11 – CDAHandler Class.
In the process to receive, analyze, process, save and update the CDAs and with
the aim of facilitating to medical staff to view the results of their patients, several
graphics have been added to the CDA. This graphics show weight and blood pressure
evolution over time.
It has been necessary to use an external library (JFreeChart.1.0.9.jar) to generate
this graphics. The Data used to generate the plots comes from the remote database. With
PIN all the measurements from the patient a new graphic on is generated in *.jpeg
format. Below it is shown the use of this library and with an example .The First part
shows the database query and second part the graphic generation.
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import
import
import
import
import
org.jfree.chart.*;
java.io.*;
java.sql.*;
org.jfree.chart.plot.*;
org.jfree.data.xy.*;
public class GraphicGenerator {
/**
* @author Agustin Garcia Perez
* @version 1.0 beta
*/
public GraphicGenerator(Patient patient){
try
{
Connection conn = null;
String login = "root";
String pass = "amazonas";
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
String url=("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/server");
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, login, pass);
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
String query = "SELECT Id FROM patients p WHERE PIN='" +
patient.getPIN() + "';";
ResultSet resultado = stmt.executeQuery(query);
resultado.first();
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, login, pass);
stmt = conn.createStatement();
query = "SELECT * FROM measurement_data m inner join
session_data s where m.IdPatient='" +
resultado.getInt("Id") + "' and
m.IdMeasurement=s.IdSession";
resultado = stmt.executeQuery(query);
resultado.first();
XYSeries seriesWeight, seriesSystolic, seriesDiastolic;
XYSeries seriesPulse, seriesMAP;
double index = 0;
XYDataset xyDataset;
JFreeChart chart;
seriesWeight = new XYSeries("Weight evolution");
seriesSystolic = new XYSeries("Systolic evolution");
seriesDiastolic = new XYSeries("Diastolic evolution");
seriesPulse = new XYSeries("Pulse evolution");
seriesMAP = new XYSeries("MAP evolution");
do{
seriesWeight.add(index, Double.parseDouble(resultado.
getString("Weight")));
seriesSystolic.add(index, Double.parseDouble(resultado.
getString("Systolic_BP")));
seriesDiastolic.add(index, Double.parseDouble(resultado.
getString("Diastolic_BP")));
seriesPulse.add(index, Double.parseDouble(resultado.
getString("Pulse_BP")));
seriesMAP.add(index, Double.parseDouble(resultado.
getString("MAP_BP")));
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index++;
}while(resultado.next());
xyDataset = new XYSeriesCollection(seriesWeight);
chart = ChartFactory.createXYLineChart("Medical
measurements", "Time", "Weight (Kg)", xyDataset,
PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);
ChartUtilities.saveChartAsPNG(new File("reports/images/" +
patient.getPIN() + "Weight.jpeg"), chart, 500, 300);
xyDataset = new XYSeriesCollection(seriesSystolic);
chart = ChartFactory.createXYLineChart("Medical
measurements", "Time", "Systolic (mmHg)", xyDataset,
PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);
ChartUtilities.saveChartAsPNG(new File("reports/images/" +
patient.getPIN() + "Systolic.jpeg"), chart, 500, 300);
xyDataset = new XYSeriesCollection(seriesDiastolic);
chart = ChartFactory.createXYLineChart("Medical
measurements", "Time", "Diastolic (mmHg)", xyDataset,
PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);
ChartUtilities.saveChartAsPNG(new File("reports/images/" +
patient.getPIN() + "Diastolic.jpeg"), chart, 500, 300);
xyDataset = new XYSeriesCollection(seriesPulse);
chart = ChartFactory.createXYLineChart("Medical
measurements", "Time", "Pulse (/min)", xyDataset,
PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);
ChartUtilities.saveChartAsPNG(new File("reports/images/" +
patient.getPIN() + "Pulse.jpeg"), chart, 500, 300);
xyDataset = new XYSeriesCollection(seriesMAP);
chart = ChartFactory.createXYLineChart("Medical
measurements", "Time", "MAP", xyDataset,
PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);
ChartUtilities.saveChartAsPNG(new File("reports/images/" +
patient.getPIN() + "MAP.jpeg"), chart, 500, 300);
}catch(Exception e){}
}
}
Source Code 12 – GraphicGenerator Class.
Here we can see three different graphic examples for weight, systolic and pulse
measurements over time. Time line represents the measurement number since the
patients started the home monitoring.
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Figure 35 – Weight graphic.
Figure 36 – Systolic graphic.
Figure 37 – Pulse graphic.
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Chapter “Database and information access” described how the web pages are
used to show the information in the patients’ EPR to medical staff. The following
section explains how the dynamic web pages, the authentication, etc... have been
implemented.
All the web pages used to access the patients’ EPR are codified in JSP format.
JavaServer Pages is a Java technology that allows software developers to dynamically
generate HTML, XML or other types of documents as a response to a Web client
request.
JSP technology allows Java code and certain pre-defined actions to be embedded
into static content. JSPs are compiled into Java Servlets by a JSP compiler. A JSP
compiler may generate a servlet in Java code that is then compiled by the Java compiler,
or it may generate byte code directly for the servlet. JSPs can also be interpreted on-thefly reducing the time taken to reload changes.
For this application, medical staff authentication is static, meaning that login and
password are defined in “redirect.jsp”. “index.jsp” is the default web page to access our
system, requesting a login and a password to the person who tries to access. These data
are sent through a form to “redirect.jsp”. The login data are checked, and if it is correct,
the previous web page redirects to “IDRequest.jsp” otherwise it redirects to “index.jsp”
again. Source code for “index.jsp” and “redirect.jsp” is as follows.
Source Code 13 – index.html web page
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Source Code 14 – redirect.html web page
Once medical staff is authenticated, the web server redirects to “IDRequest.jsp”.
Note that, this web page cannot be access without have been suceesfuly logged in
previously. If someone tries to open directly this web page from address bar, an error
message will be shown. If the web page is accessed properly, it will ask for an ID
patient. The source code for this page is as follows.
Source Code 15 – IDRequest.html web page
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Source Code 16 – showReports.html web page
As it is shown in the previous code source the IDpatient information is sendt to
“showReport.jsp”. This is the most complex web page in the server because it necessary
to make a XSLT Transformation to show the reports. According to HL7 standards,
reports in XML format have to be transformed with “cda.xsl”. It is a stylesheet which
allows transforming XML reports to HTML code to be viewed for people in a readable
format. Process XSLT Transformation:
Figure 38 – XSLT Transformation.
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7. APPENDIX
Appendix I. UC-321PBT Precision Health Scale Specifications
Figure 39 – Bluetooth Blood Pressure Monitor.
Capacity
200 kg / 450 lb
Resolution
100g / 0.2 lb
Sensor
Load cell
Display
LCD, character height: 25mm
Power
4 type AA batteries (R6P)
Battery life
Approx. 2,000 measurements
Weight
2.7kg
Dimensions
320 x 314 x 35 mm (WxDxH)
Auto power (on / off)
45 seconds / 10 seconds
Operating
temperature
10°~ 35°C (50°~ 95°F)
Communication
Bluetooth wireless technology (class 1, version 1.2)
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Appendix II. UA-767PBT Blood Pressure Monitor Specifications
Figure 40 – Bluetooth Weight Scale.
Method
Display Type
Digital, LCD16/10-mm character
height, Pressure/pulse Displayed simultaneously
Measurement
Range
20 – 280 mmHg (pressure)
40 – 200 pulse/minute (pulse)
Accuracy
± 3 mmHg or 2%, whichever is greater (pressure)
± 5% (pulse)
Pressurization
Automatic pressurization by micro pump
Depressurization
Constant speed exhaust valve
Deflation
Automatic exhaust by electromagnetic valve
Power supply
4 Type AA batteries (R6P)
Battery life
Approximately 300 measurements
Operating
environment
+ 10°C ~ + 40°C (+ 50°F ~ 104°F)
30%RH to 85%RH
Storage
environment
10°C ~ + 60°C (14°F ~ 140°F)
30%RH to 85%RH
Weight
Approximately 300g (0.66lb)
Dimensions
64(H) x 147(W) x 110(D) mm
Standard
accessories
Soft carrying case, instruction manual & batteries
Options
AC adapter
TB-182-C —230V, C plug, CE
TB-182-BF—230V, BF plug , CE
Communication
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Oscillometric
Bluetooth wireless technology (Class1, version 1.2)