A pervasive tele-health system for continual and low intrusive monitoring using peer-to-peer networks
by Hanh Le, Nina Schiff, Johan Du Plessis, Doan B. Hoang
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT), Vol. 34, No. 4, 2009

Abstract: There are many people suffering from chronic illnesses, obesity and related diseases such as: high blood pressure, arrhythmia, diabetes, etc. However, with a large number of patients and constant health monitoring requirements, a centralised server will not be able to accommodate such high volumes of data. In this paper, the authors propose to develop a pervasive electronic healthcare system using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The authors developed a heart monitoring application as their first prototype to demonstrate the concept. The main advantage of the model is scalability and cost efficiency.

Online publication date: Wed, 25-Mar-2009

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