Design of Patient Monitor Using Android Application

Abstract

In the last decade the healthcare monitoring systems have drawn considerable attentions of the researchers and students. The prime goal was to develop a reliable patient monitoring system so that the healthcare professionals can monitor their patients, who are either hospitalized or executing their normal daily life activities, the patient monitors are expensive, difficult to move from one place to another, not available at all healthcare centers and in rural areas. In this work we present a mobile phone device (android APP) based wireless healthcare monitoring system about physiological conditions (ECG, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, heart beats per minute and body temperature of a patient. Our proposed system is designed to measure and monitor important physiological data of a patient in order to accurately describe the status of her/his health, fitness and basic vital signs in easy procedures. In addition the proposed system is able to send alarming message about the patient’s critical health data by text messages or by email reports to the doctors. By using the information contained in the text or e-mail message the healthcare professional can provide necessary medical advising. The system mainly consists of mobile phone, the data acquisition unit, microcontroller (i.e., Arduino UNO), and software (i.e., LabVIEW). The patient’s temperature, heart beat rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and ECG data are monitored, displayed, and stored by our system to be easy for recalling by user and reference doctor. To ensure reliability and accuracy the proposed system has been field tested. The test results show that our system is able to measure the patient’s physiological data with reliable, acceptance values and inexpensive costs.