What is the Remote Patient Monitoring ??

~  Remote Patient Monitoring is a system that will monitor

   patients at their bed or home by clinician through the    

   remote location at the hospital.

~  Architecture of the system : 

Figure 1 

   

  (a) In Figure 1, the basic of model in generally : 

      i - Medical Sensor Module will be attached to 

          the patient to record the patient's data.

     ii - The data will be forward to the PDA through

          a wired channel (USB or serial port).        

              

* The PDA will contain an application for local monitoring

  of patient's data that would display the current readings.

     

    iii - The PDA will connect to a remote server and transfer 

          the data to it.

    iv - The remote server will process the data, the Clinical

          Decision Support System to perform analysis data. 

     v - The Electronic Medical Record service to record the

         readings in the patient's history and provide feedback

         to the PDA screen notifying the decision given by the

         Clinician Decision Support System.

~  The web server also handle requests from the clinician's

   terminal and provide reports about the patient's situation.

~  An electronic medical record system will be used to store 

   the incoming data to the patient's record. 

~  The clinical decision support system will provide automated 

   analysis of data and assist the clinician in decision making 

   process.