1st International ICST Workshop on Connected Health: Using IT to Integrate the HealthCare Enterprise

Research Article

Managing Comprehensive Wireless Patient Monitoring

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361686,
        author={Upkar  Varshney},
        title={Managing Comprehensive Wireless Patient Monitoring},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Connected Health: Using IT to Integrate the HealthCare Enterprise},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CONNECTINGHEALTH},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={context-awareness patient monitoring reliability and wireless networks.},
        doi={10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361686}
    }
    
  • Upkar Varshney
    Year: 2007
    Managing Comprehensive Wireless Patient Monitoring
    CONNECTINGHEALTH
    ICST
    DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361686
Upkar Varshney1,*
  • 1: Department of CIS at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4015. Phone: 404-463- 9139; fax: 404-651-3842.
*Contact email: uvarshney@gsu.edu

Abstract

Patient monitoring using wireless technologies has been considered for improving the quality of healthcare to an increased number of patients, including those suffering from physical and cognitive disabilities. For such patients, there is a need to design a comprehensive wireless patient monitoring system. In this paper, we propose a management framework for comprehensive patient monitoring that utilizes reliability of network architectures, context-awareness in vital-signs, and traffic management. This framework is applicable for a variety of patients who will require autonomous and context-aware operation of reliable patient monitoring networks