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A Remote Patient Monitoring System for Congestive Heart Failure

Journal of Medical Systems volume 35, pages 1165–1179 (2011)Cite this article

Abstract

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a leading cause of death in the United States affecting approximately 670,000 individuals. Due to the prevalence of CHF related issues, it is prudent to seek out methodologies that would facilitate the prevention, monitoring, and treatment of heart disease on a daily basis. This paper describes WANDA (Weight and Activity with Blood Pressure Monitoring System); a study that leverages sensor technologies and wireless communications to monitor the health related measurements of patients with CHF. The WANDA system is a three-tier architecture consisting of sensors, web servers, and back-end databases. The system was developed in conjunction with the UCLA School of Nursing and the UCLA Wireless Health Institute to enable early detection of key clinical symptoms indicative of CHF-related decompensation. This study shows that CHF patients monitored by WANDA are less likely to have readings fall outside a healthy range. In addition, WANDA provides a useful feedback system for regulating readings of CHF patients.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the funding sources: NIH/National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics Training Program Grant T15 LM07356, National Institute of Health-National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Grant 1R01HL093466-01, and NetScienctific. Dr. Evangelista also received support from the University of California, School of Nursing Intramural Research Grant and the University of California, Los Angeles, Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research/Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (RCMAR/CHIME) under NIH/NIA Grant P30-AG02-1684. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Aging or the National Institutes of Health. We would like to thank Wen-Sao Hong, Victor Chen, Professor William Kaiser and Professor Alex Bui for their help.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Myung-kyung Suh, Jonathan Woodbridge, Ani Nahapetian & Majid Sarrafzadeh

  2. Wireless Health Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ani Nahapetian & Majid Sarrafzadeh

  3. Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Chien-An Chen

  4. Biomedical Engineering IDP, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Michael Kai Tu

  5. School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Lorraine S. Evangelista

  6. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Jung In Kim

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Suh, Mk., Chen, CA., Woodbridge, J. et al. A Remote Patient Monitoring System for Congestive Heart Failure. J Med Syst 35, 1165–1179 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9733-y

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Keywords

  • Health monitoring
  • Telemedicine
  • Wireless health
  • Congestive heart failure patients monitoring
  • Real-time feedback
  • Data integrity
  • Database backup