U-healthcare system deployment
Shih-Ching Yeh
line 1: Department of Information Engineering
line 2: National Central University,Taiwan
line 3: Zhongli
line 4: e-mail: hihchiy@csie.ncu.edu.tw
Tzu-Chuan Huang
line 1: Department of Information Engineering
line 2: National Central University,Taiwan
line 3: Zhongli
line 4: e-mail: ladioussuapp@gmail.ocm
Wu-Yuin Hwang
line 1: Department of Information Engineering
line 2: National Central University,Taiwan
line 3: Zhongli
line 4: wyhwang@cc.ncu.edu.tw
Wen-Kang Liu
line 1: Department of Information Engineering
line 2: National Central University,Taiwan
line 3: Zhongli
line 4: djkong123@yahoo.com.tw
Abstract—Wireless Sensor Network is one of the 21 ideals in 21
century[9], and health care is one of its many applications.
Generally speaking, there are two keys for the successful
construction of Wireless Sensor Network, one it the editing of
appropriate data transfer protocol at the front end of the
network, the next is the possession of robust database and
effective network platform in the back end that can meet the
need of the users. Based on the above two requirements, the
customized wireless physiological sensor network designed by
this research is based on the real environment of health care
room, under the premise of ”customer is number 1”,
comfortable equipment, effective database and simple network
system are used to achieve the objective of omnipresent health
care. Based on the experience and technology obtained from
this real application, we hope to build more complicated U-
healthcare system to be used by the health service center.
Keywords- Wireless Sensor Network; transfer protocol;
database; omnipresent health care
I. INTRODUCTION
Using this system structure (figure1),”Customized
wireless physiological sensor network design [1]: take U-
Healthcare as example” of this research is set up. Here the
wireless physiological signal sensor node transmits the
physiological information through one to two Bluetooth way.
In the future, it can be expanded to 1 to 7, and the gateway
end is connected to the Bluetooth transmitter. Meanwhile, in
the Bluetooth driving program, Bluetooth device port can be
added. Sensing node has different port, and Bluetooth
wireless transmission is used to transmit physiological signal
to the remote host, and the physiological signal collected
from each point is sent to the database.
The setup of medical record system in the health care
center and hospitals is outsourced or self-developed.
Although all kinds of biomedical data and test reports are
saved in the database, yet due to the lack of uniform format,
there is difficulty for search and tracking among different
health care organizations and hospitals. Due to the difference
in data resource and detailed items, it usually leads to bad
result. Therefore, the motivation of this article is to extend
from the system and to study the acquisition of data from the
medical record system database of hospital. It is hoped that a
set of electronic medical record file format can be set up for
”medical care service center database” that belongs to
medical care service center .
Figure 1. Wireless Sensor Network system chart
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Starting from 1994, the elderly people aged more than 65
years old in Taiwan has exceeded 8% of the total population,
which reaches the high age society standard as made by the
United Nation. It is expected that in 2011, this proportion is
going to be above 12%, which will be close to that of
advanced countries such as Europe, America and Japan.
Along with the rapid rise of the population of old people, lots
of social problems related to old people medical and health
care will arise, which will be a burden to the government. In
recent years, the major cause of death for citizens in this
country is chronic disease and degenerate non-contagious
disease, in addition to the chronic disease which is
commonly seen in old people due to age factor, young
people could also easily get the chronic disease due to high
work pressure, bad dining habit, staying overnight and the
lack of exercise. However, chronic disease needs long term
tracking and cure, but the current medical resource does not
allow the long term staying in hospital for medical care,
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