Home telemonitoring of vital signs - Technical challenges and future directions

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 82-91

  Celler, Branko G ^a   Sparks, Ross S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

biomedical instrumentation; biomedical signal processing; medical expert systems; Telehealth; vital signs

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HEALTH RISKS; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; PULMONARY DISEASES; TELEMEDICINE; USER INTERFACES;

BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; LONGITUDINAL HEALTH RECORDS; MEDICAL EXPERT SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; TELEHEALTH; VITAL SIGN;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SELF CARE; TELEMEDICINE; TRENDS; VITAL SIGN;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; SELF CARE; TELEMEDICINE; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84920903497     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: 21682208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2014.2351413     Document Type: Article

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