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abstract

  • © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.The combined use of information and telecommunications technologies, as a specialization area in engineering, currently plays a vital and paramount role in human beings¿ lives. Telemedicine, as an application example of this specialization area, is becoming increasingly common and certainly promises to be an important means of achieving a substantial improvement in healthcare. The intention of this chapter is to study, analyze, and contribute to the implementation and development of tools for the remote monitoring of health and remote consultation in real time. The content of our chapter first introduces the kind of events triggering an emergency situation. Then, our chapter overviews the issues and elements surrounding mHealth applications. After this, we provide the context of prehospital assistance personnel with specific information about the features, definitions, activities, and current practices. The mHealth concept is introduced as a key to narrowing the physician-patient relationship. We then present a review of the mHealth systems proposed over the past few years. The systems selected for this review track the patient¿s health in outdoor scenarios and are ranked according to their potential for improving remote consultations in real time. After this review, we propose an integrated and dynamic system (architecture) able to monitor a patient¿s physiological parameters. We also discuss technological challenges and current boundaries referring to the mHealth concept based on the proposed system. Finally, we discuss in the conclusions section the staple advantages and limits regarding mHealth systems.

publication date

  • January 1, 2018