Emerging mobile and wireless networks
Communications of the ACM
Past, present, and future of decision support technology
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Decision support systems: Directions for the next decade
User and Concept Studies as Tools in Developing Mobile Communication Services for the Elderly
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Using Pervasive Computing to Deliver Elder Care
IEEE Pervasive Computing
LifeMinder: an evidence-based wearable healthcare assistant
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Application requirements for middleware for mobile and pervasive systems
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Reliable, Distributed and Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Multi-Hop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
LCN '02 Proceedings of the 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Sensors and Wireless Communication for Medical Care
DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Mobile clinical support system for pediatric emergencies
Decision Support Systems
Computer
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Machine assessment of neonatal facial expressions of acute pain
Decision Support Systems
Intelligent environment for monitoring Alzheimer patients, agent technology for health care
Decision Support Systems
Explaining clinical decisions by extracting regularity patterns
Decision Support Systems
Wireless sensor networks for healthcare: A survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
Design and evaluation of Ubiquitous Information Systems and use in healthcare
Decision Support Systems
A framework for enabling patient monitoring via mobile ad hoc network
Decision Support Systems
Smart medication management system and multiple interventions for medication adherence
Decision Support Systems
Towards design principles for pharmacist-patient health information systems
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
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Patient monitoring is becoming a requirement for offering a better healthcare to an increasing number of patients in nursing homes and hospitals. During the monitoring, vital signs of patients could fluctuate significantly and/or match certain undesirable patterns and therefore ''alerts'' or emergency messages must be delivered to healthcare professionals. In this paper, we address how patient monitoring, specifically emergency messages, can be supported over wireless ad hoc network formed among patients' devices. The framework describes a wireless patient monitoring system that includes patient monitoring devices, routing protocols and information presentation for vitals signs and parameters. This involves a series of decisions in obtaining and processing vital signs, routing over networks, and delivering to healthcare professionals, who must make suitable medical decisions on patients' healthcare needs. Additionally, several design enhancements to improve the quality and coverage of wireless patient monitoring are presented. The performance results for the proposed ad hoc network based architecture show that reliable message delivery and low monitoring delays can be achieved by using multicast or broadcast-based routing schemes. The proposed monitoring architecture is shown to be scalable and the cognitive load on healthcare professionals is found to be dependent on routing protocols and reliability requirement of emergency messages. The proposed work can be extended to provide personalized healthcare services to people in nursing homes, assisted living, home, and while being mobile.