Mobile healthcare infrastructure for home and small clinic

Abstract

In this paper, the authors describe the software infrastructure built to provide healthcare solution for home and small clinic scenario using mobile healthcare devices. The paper discusses how the data from the devices have been stored into a generic Internet of Things (IoT) backend and then retrieved using web services to provide an interactive portal which provides patient data in a unified manner. The novelty of the approach lies in the use of a mobile device as a gateway to reach the backend IoT platform, which supports application deployment and then applying it to the health-care vertical. The mobile device has hence been used as a pervasive healthcare gateway that collects data from the medical devices using either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and uploads the data to the back-end server in desired format. Hence the mobile application acts as the edge platform. Several connected healthcare devices like ECG, pulse oxygen meter, body fat analyzer and blood pressure monitor have been used in conjunction with the mobile gateway.