Health Care Patient Monitoring System Using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Health has become one of the global challenges for humanity. Cardiac diseases, Lung failures and heart related diseases are increasing at a rapid rate. Monitoring health of elderly people at home or patients at hospitals is necessary but it requires constant observation of Practitioners and Doctors. Information Technology (IT) and its growing applications are performing major role in making human life easier. Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming healthcare and the role of IT in healthcare. IoT consists of physical devices, such as sensors and monitoring devices for patients (glucose, blood pressure, heart rate & activity monitoring, etc) to connect to the internet and transforms information from the physical world into the digital world. The proposed system, with the help of IoT’s such features, will help to keep the necessary details and reports of a patient organized and available to all actors in the system. IoT devices like low power sensors will be used to collect data from patients and it will be displayed using LCD and stored on any personal computer and also on the cloud so that any actor in the system can refer to it.