Remote patient health monitoring cloud brokering services

Telehealth relies on the ability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to maximize the quality of care provided remotely. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a key part within telehealth that enables patient to use devices to measure vital signs and sends it to a healthcare professional. Patients usually have multiple devices to measure vital signs. Those devices might be manufactured by different providers. Hence, each device might utilize a different communication protocol and data standards. Now-a-days, there exist commercialized cloud platforms that deal with the integration of patient devices that are manufactured by the same provider. This work proposes a healthcare brokering services that enables the integration with existing cloud platforms to capture the data from the patient's devices. Moreover, the work also presents a way to model the patient's health condition to be remotely monitored and takes right decision at the right time. This work is validated by a prototype implementation.