Arezou Taheri*, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic Of Mohammad Tafazzoli Shadpoor, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic Of Track: Practice Presentation Topic: Personal health records and Patient portals Presentation Type: Poster presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2013-09-25

If you are the presenter of this abstract (or if you cite this abstract in a talk or on a poster), please show the QR code in your slide or poster (QR code contains this URL).

Telemedicine is one of the technologies that is anticipated to significantly revolutionize the system of health care services provision. This technology is a communication tool that links health care professionals and patients in different locations through telephone line, wireless, fax, internet and local networks. It provides the patients with health care and treatment services via teleconferencing and telemonitoring approaches; no need for their physical presence in physician’s office or clinic.
In this project, in line with achievement of home telehealth, an integrated and dynamic database along with its software for telemonitoring of three important and vital signs (blood glucose, blood pressure, and pulse rate) is designed and implemented. The developed system is capable of carefully maintaining, displaying and evaluating the properly transferred values of blood glucose, blood pressure, and pulse rate of the under controlled patients, to the healthcare center database, in appropriate time. As the related software system, is a web based one, it grants members of this website, including patients, physicians, consultant physicians, health administrators and health care providers, to access the latest data status stored in the center. This will assist diagnosis, treatment, consultation, follow up the patients’ status, and education. The software system, is capable of displaying all the stored warnings while transferring values to database (errors that occur during data transfer or medical warnings due to outranged values).
In this system, it is possible to register necessary complementary information, such as patients’ medical history, current diseases, signs and symptoms, and the taken drugs. This helps physicians to make proper diagnosis and treatment. All the provided information is accessible for physicians in various and appropriate formats such as: image, MS Excel file, MS Word file, PDF file and HTML file, in order to make quick decisions and actions in diagnosis, controlling the disease, and alerting patients.
The results of this research reveal that implementing a web-based software system for home telehealth, provides conditions that accelerate monitoring and consequently recovery of patients.
Such a system is recommended as a new tool for communication between health providers and patients.

Keywords: Telemedicine, Home Telehealth, Blood Glucose, Blood Pressure, Database, Software