SBIdC-MPH: sistema baseado em internet das coisas para o monitoramento de pacientes com hipertensão

Abstract

Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) are one of the greatest challenges in Health, mainly due to their magnitude and their high social cost. The four main groups of NCDs, cardiovascular diseases, Cancer, Diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, cause about 70% of deaths in the world, leading to the death of around 41 million people each year. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of premature death, accounting for about 17.9 million people annually, of which 9.4 million are due to Hypertension. To prevent and control NCDs, it is necessary to promote a change in habits and provide comprehensive health care for the patient. The technologies of Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing and, more recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) enable the development of systems for remote and real-time monitoring of patients affected with certain NCDs, such as Hypertension, Diabetes, Asthma and Obesity. In this sense, the System Based on Internet of Things for Monitoring Patients with Hypertension (SBIdC-MPH) was developed, which allows for capturing the patient's vital signs, such as blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature, via a network of built-in sensors to a wearable device similar to a wristwatch. These signals are transmitted to the patient's mobile device for processing, and the clinical data generated are sent to a computational cloud. These data, in turn, are treated in the cloud with a view to presenting them, through tables and graphics, to the health professional responsible for the patient. The SBIdC-MPH also allows the generation of alert signals, which are sent to the patient, the health professional, or even to people designated by the patient, whenever critical situations are detected.