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Developing a Low-Cost IoT-Based Remote Cardiovascular Patient Monitoring System in Cameroon

(1) Background: Cameroonians are exposed to poor health services, more so citizens with cardiovascular-related diseases. The global high cost of acquiring healthcare-related technologies has prompted the government and individuals to promote the need for local research and the development of the hea...

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Autores principales: Armand, Tagne Poupi Theodore, Mozumder, Md Ariful Islam, Ali, Sikandar, Amaechi, Austin Oguejiofor, Kim, Hee-Cheol
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36673567
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11020199
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author Armand, Tagne Poupi Theodore
Mozumder, Md Ariful Islam
Ali, Sikandar
Amaechi, Austin Oguejiofor
Kim, Hee-Cheol
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description (1) Background: Cameroonians are exposed to poor health services, more so citizens with cardiovascular-related diseases. The global high cost of acquiring healthcare-related technologies has prompted the government and individuals to promote the need for local research and the development of the health system. (2) Objectives: The main goal of this study is to design and develop a low-cost cardiovascular patient monitoring system (RPM) with wireless capabilities that could be used in any region of Cameroon, accessible, and very inexpensive, that are able to capture important factors, well reflecting the patient’s condition and provide alerting mechanisms. (3) Method: Using the lean UX process from the Gothelf and Seiden framework, the implemented IoT-based application measures the patients’ systolic, diastolic, and heart rates using various sensors, that are automated to record directly to the application database for analysis. The validity of the heuristic evaluation was examined in an ethnographic study of paramedics using a prototype of the system in their work environment. (4) Results: We obtained a system that was pre-tested on demo patients and later deployed and tested on seven real human test subjects. The users’ task performances partially verified the heuristic evaluation results. (5) Conclusions: The data acquired by the sensors have a high level of accuracy and effectively help specialists to properly monitor their patients at a low cost. The proposed system maintains a user-friendliness as no expertise is required for its effective utilization.
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spelling pubmed-98593082023-01-21 Developing a Low-Cost IoT-Based Remote Cardiovascular Patient Monitoring System in Cameroon Armand, Tagne Poupi Theodore Mozumder, Md Ariful Islam Ali, Sikandar Amaechi, Austin Oguejiofor Kim, Hee-Cheol Healthcare (Basel) Article (1) Background: Cameroonians are exposed to poor health services, more so citizens with cardiovascular-related diseases. The global high cost of acquiring healthcare-related technologies has prompted the government and individuals to promote the need for local research and the development of the health system. (2) Objectives: The main goal of this study is to design and develop a low-cost cardiovascular patient monitoring system (RPM) with wireless capabilities that could be used in any region of Cameroon, accessible, and very inexpensive, that are able to capture important factors, well reflecting the patient’s condition and provide alerting mechanisms. (3) Method: Using the lean UX process from the Gothelf and Seiden framework, the implemented IoT-based application measures the patients’ systolic, diastolic, and heart rates using various sensors, that are automated to record directly to the application database for analysis. The validity of the heuristic evaluation was examined in an ethnographic study of paramedics using a prototype of the system in their work environment. (4) Results: We obtained a system that was pre-tested on demo patients and later deployed and tested on seven real human test subjects. The users’ task performances partially verified the heuristic evaluation results. (5) Conclusions: The data acquired by the sensors have a high level of accuracy and effectively help specialists to properly monitor their patients at a low cost. The proposed system maintains a user-friendliness as no expertise is required for its effective utilization. MDPI 2023-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9859308/ /pubmed/36673567 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11020199 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859308/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11020199
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