Design and implementation of a healthcare system with fall detection

Telemedicine information system becomes essential that healthcare system not only supports a better medicine care, but also reduces the medicine cost. In this paper, we introduce our design of outdoor patients monitoring system. This system monitors the patient's whereabouts and then sends the patient's physiological signals to the hospital. We implement a health-care box that collects ECG, video and location of the patient. The health-care box detects whether the patient fall by analyzing the collected information through GPS. Besides, we integrate the Google map into the healthcare system so that the user can know the location of the patient clearly. With proposed two thread system design, the improvements of detection time are 34%-39%.