Health technology assessment review: Remote monitoring of vital signs - current status and future challenges
Authors: Nangalia, V., Prytherch, D.R. and Smith, G.B.
Journal: Critical Care
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
eISSN: 1466-609X
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc9208
Abstract:Recent developments in communications technologies and associated computing and digital electronics now permit patient data, including routine vital signs, to be surveyed at a distance. Remote monitoring, or telemonitoring, can be regarded as a subdivision of telemedicine - the use of electronic and telecommunications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants. Depending on environment and purpose, the patient and the carer/system surveying, analysing or interpreting the data could be separated by as little as a few feet or be on different continents. Most telemonitoring systems will incorporate five components: data acquisition using an appropriate sensor; transmission of data from patient to clinician; integration of data with other data describing the state of the patient; synthesis of an appropriate action, or response or escalation in the care of the patient, and associated decision support; and storage of data. Telemonitoring is currently being used in community-based healthcare, at the scene of medical emergencies, by ambulance services and in hospitals. Current challenges in telemonitoring include: the lack of a full range of appropriate sensors, the bulk weight and size of the whole system or its components, battery life, available bandwidth, network coverage, and the costs of data transmission via public networks. Telemonitoring also has the ability to produce a mass of data - but this requires interpretation to be of clinical use and much necessary research work remains to be done. © 2010 BioMed Central Ltd.
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Preferred by: Gary Smith
Health technology assessment review: remote monitoring of vital signs--current status and future challenges.
Authors: Nangalia, V., Prytherch, D.R. and Smith, G.B.
Journal: Crit Care
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
Pages: 233
eISSN: 1466-609X
DOI: 10.1186/cc9208
Abstract:Recent developments in communications technologies and associated computing and digital electronics now permit patient data, including routine vital signs, to be surveyed at a distance. Remote monitoring, or telemonitoring, can be regarded as a subdivision of telemedicine - the use of electronic and telecommunications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants. Depending on environment and purpose, the patient and the carer/system surveying, analysing or interpreting the data could be separated by as little as a few feet or be on different continents. Most telemonitoring systems will incorporate five components: data acquisition using an appropriate sensor; transmission of data from patient to clinician; integration of data with other data describing the state of the patient; synthesis of an appropriate action, or response or escalation in the care of the patient, and associated decision support; and storage of data. Telemonitoring is currently being used in community-based healthcare, at the scene of medical emergencies, by ambulance services and in hospitals. Current challenges in telemonitoring include: the lack of a full range of appropriate sensors, the bulk weight and size of the whole system or its components, battery life, available bandwidth, network coverage, and the costs of data transmission via public networks. Telemonitoring also has the ability to produce a mass of data - but this requires interpretation to be of clinical use and much necessary research work remains to be done.
Source: PubMed
Health technology assessment review: Remote monitoring of vital signs - current status and future challenges
Authors: Nangalia, V., Prytherch, D.R. and Smith, G.B.
Journal: CRITICAL CARE
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
eISSN: 1364-8535
ISSN: 1466-609X
DOI: 10.1186/cc9208
Source: Web of Science (Lite)
Health technology assessment review: remote monitoring of vital signs--current status and future challenges.
Authors: Nangalia, V., Prytherch, D.R. and Smith, G.B.
Journal: Critical care (London, England)
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
Pages: 233
eISSN: 1466-609X
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc9208
Abstract:Recent developments in communications technologies and associated computing and digital electronics now permit patient data, including routine vital signs, to be surveyed at a distance. Remote monitoring, or telemonitoring, can be regarded as a subdivision of telemedicine - the use of electronic and telecommunications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants. Depending on environment and purpose, the patient and the carer/system surveying, analysing or interpreting the data could be separated by as little as a few feet or be on different continents. Most telemonitoring systems will incorporate five components: data acquisition using an appropriate sensor; transmission of data from patient to clinician; integration of data with other data describing the state of the patient; synthesis of an appropriate action, or response or escalation in the care of the patient, and associated decision support; and storage of data. Telemonitoring is currently being used in community-based healthcare, at the scene of medical emergencies, by ambulance services and in hospitals. Current challenges in telemonitoring include: the lack of a full range of appropriate sensors, the bulk weight and size of the whole system or its components, battery life, available bandwidth, network coverage, and the costs of data transmission via public networks. Telemonitoring also has the ability to produce a mass of data - but this requires interpretation to be of clinical use and much necessary research work remains to be done.
Source: Europe PubMed Central