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A Novel Health Monitoring System using Patient Trajectory Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities

Authors:
Shayma Alkobaisi
Wan D. Bae
Sada Narayanappa
Cheng C. Liu

Keywords: health monitoring, uncertain trajectories, environmental factors, asthma, road networks

Abstract:
Continued advances and cost reduction in mobile devices such as smart phones made them widely used in our daily-life practices such as en route navigation and vehicle tracking. Health applications utilizing these battery-powered devices continue to grow, and so does the demand for effective modeling and analysis tools to support data collected by these devices. Health monitoring applications in particular became very popular these days. However, researchers must overcome many challenges, such as data acquisition, data scales and data uncertainty, in order to develop such applications. In this paper, we propose a novel health monitoring system that can interact with the patient and analyze the patient's moving trajectories combined with data of environmental conditions. We present a system architecture, and discuss ideas and challenges in developing the health monitoring system for asthma patients. This system can provide a better understanding of the effect of environmental factors on triggering health attacks and hence support individual-based health care.

Pages: 147 to 151

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: January 30, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-393X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-178-6

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from January 30, 2012 to February 4, 2012