مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد نظارت بر بیمار از راه دور – اسپرینگر 2017

Remote healthcare is an emerging research field as the world moves towards remote monitoring, real-time and fast detection of illnesses. Remote healthcare has many categories, (e.g. telehealth, mobile health) all of which mean monitoring of patients outside hospital conditions by the means of technology. The advantages of remote monitoring of patients are: early and real-time detection of illnesses, ability to continuously monitor patients, prevention of worsening of illnesses and untimely deaths, cost reduction in hospitalizations, reduce the number of hospitalizations, obtain more accurate readings while permitting usual daily activities for patients, improve efficiency in healthcare services by utilizing communication technology, emergency medical care, service for patients with mobility issues, emergency care for traffic accidents and other injuries and usage of non-invasive medical interventions. Remote monitoring of patients target several sub-groups of patients, such as patients diagnosed with chronic illnesses, patients with mobility issues, or other disability, post-surgery patients, neonates and elderly patients. All these types of patients have conditions that are better to be monitored continuously. The aim of good healthcare is the ability to support ordinary life as much comfortable as possible to all patients. Most research follow the policy of allowing the mobility and activity freedom at home or personal environments which are beneficial for the patients rather than being confined into a high-cost hospital room. Therefore, whole systems are being built to support this concept with the use of different technologies. With the new remote health monitoring applications, elderly patients can engage in daily activities without support from a caretaker. So, these applications support activities like sitting, standing, using the bathroom, watching television, reading and sleeping, with least inconvenience to the user. Even if there are wearable sensors, these pose minimum effect to the activities. One such example is smart wrist-watch based sensors. For the patients of accidents and sudden injuries, the time they are monitored remotely could be only the time they are being transferred to the hospital in an ambulance. Nevertheless, efforts have been focused on safe journey to the hospital and remote monitoring helps for immediate medical interventions for highly critical cases. The doctors can monitor the deterioration or maintenance of the patient while also advising the paramedics who are physically with the patients as necessary.