Development of Continuous Heart Function Monitoring Service
Yulia Zavyalova, MSc. Alexander Borodin, Nikolay Lebedev(Petrozavodsk State University, Russia)In the next decade modern health care is likely to face new challenges due to population ageing. Since the use of medical care services by adults rises with age and per capita expenditures on health care are relatively high among older age groups, overall health care spending tends to grow year by year.
At the same time, advances in low-power electronics and sensor networks enable continuous monitoring scenarios when health parameters are obtained in a real-time manner and analyzed on the spot or sent to the cloud for further processing.
CardiaCare is the service for continuous heart function monitoring that is under development in Petrozavodsk State University. The CardiaCare mobile app obtains electrocardiogram recordings wirelessly from personal monitoring devices, processes them on a smartphone and sends a notification to relatives or caregivers in case a threatening heart rhythm abnormality happens. Next the recordings are sent to the remote backend to store in the personal health record of an individual. The backend provides a REST API to facilitate the development of mobile and web clients and service functionality extension. For the purposes of storing and querying new sorts of measurements without database redesign, an ad hoc data model has been proposed.
