Realization of an e-Health System to Perceive Emergency Situations

Emergency situations can occur anywhere and anytime in daily life. In the paper, we present an e-health system to perceive emergency situations of a patient. Using a wearable shirt (BioShirt) and a personal monitoring system (PBM), we obtain the body signals of a user. The monitoring system collects and transmits the vital signs to a personal digital assistant (PDA) via a BlueTooth communication module. To detect emergency from the received data, a simple detection algorithm is performed in the PDA. And the PDA forwards the data to an e-health central monitoring room (ECMR), if necessary. In the ECMR, several operators supervise the registered users based on incoming body signals from each user™s device. If an automatic decision-making algorithm generates an emergency alarm, the operators try to contact the corresponding patient and recognize his status. Ultimately if they decide that the patient is an urgent situation, they give phone calls and messages to the emergency center and the patient™s medical attendant immediately.