Authors:
C. L. Martínez-González
1
;
J. Mendizabal Navarro
2
and
N. I. Plascencia Álvarez
3
Affiliations:
1
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
;
2
Escuela Superior de Cómputo, Mexico
;
3
Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre, Mexico
Keyword(s):
Remote Treatment Monitoring System, Epilepsy, Mobile Technology, Seizure Warning, Patient Location.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Personal health care technologies in chronic diseases face the challenge to design holistic approaches where
health care involves not only the medical specialist for treatment and monitoring, but the patient and the
family. Epilepsy is a term used for a group of chronic disorders with diverse etiology characterized by
recurrent seizures, caused by an abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Treatment monitoring requires
continuous collaboration of the patient and the family to register manually a diary of activities, seizures,
seizures triggers and symptoms associated to medication in order to reach optimal therapy. Patients with
non-controlled seizures and their families have to deal with a restricted quality of life: the patient is exposed
to physical risks when seizures appear under any circumstance and place. In this paper a remote patient
treatment monitoring and warning system framework design based on mobile technology is proposed, with
multiple input, seizure detection with
a smartphone accelerometer, automatic and manual seizure warning
and location of the patient through GPS and a social support network. This design approach is patient-and
family-centred, as they are the source of individual information in a particular environment, condition and
treatment response. It also represents a first proposal of a potential ubiquitous health care system through a
wearable device.
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