Remote monitoring of patients of Cardiology Department of the Benin National Teaching University Hospital (CNHU-HKM)

Abstract

The remote monitoring system for patients aims to provide better aftercare for them through an easy system scalable and adapted to the socio-economic realities over the world and particularly in the Benin National Teaching Hospital Hubert K. MAGA (CNHU-HKM) as national reference center. To achieve a part of this goal, we have proposed to implement a prototype for patients of cardiology. Its functioning is based on a web application for the exchange of information and data with the system, an electronic device for the acquisition of phonocardiogram (PCG) and two software applications. The first application is responsible of all processing at patients level. The second application, which is for doctors deals with the remote monitoring of the patients’ data in real time. The obtained system is highly optimized for cheaper and scalable to all specialties without major component addition. Since the prototype is realized only for cardiac signals, it is extendable other physiological parameters.