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On one side of India, we have multi-specialty hospitals which satisfy the healthcare needs of people with specialized and speedy treatments. On the other side, a large part of the population in India resides in rural areas where basic medical facility is sometimes unavailable. People in the rural areas do not get proper treatment due to the non availability of required number of registered medical practitioners. This paper presents the architecture of Context Aware Health Monitoring System developed for connecting Primary Healthcare Centres in the rural areas with the sophisticated hospitals in the urban areas of India through mobile communication and IT infrastructure. The system aims to provide affordable, efficient and sustainable healthcare service by leveraging mobile communication and information technology. The system monitors and delivers patient’s physiological readings to the hospitals and provides an alert mechanism triggered by the patient’s vital signs which is linked to a medical practitioner’s mobile device.
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Sridevi, S., Sayantani, B., Amutha, K.P., Mohan, C.M., Pitchiah, R. (2010). Context Aware Health Monitoring System. In: Zhang, D., Sonka, M. (eds) Medical Biometrics. ICMB 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13923-9_27
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