TELEMON is an integrated e-health platform for real time telemonitoring of patients and/or elderly persons found in medical care units, at home, at work, on vacation, on the street or elsewhere.

The benefits of implementing such a system will be many, from the possibility of applying more personalized treatments – as a result of permanent acquisition of data via body sensors, to the actual saving of lives, due to more timely interventions in medical emergencies (such as heart attacks, strokes, cardio-respiratory arrests, accidental falls and losses of consciousness).

At the same time, such a system is expected to reduce the cost of medical services, especially with patients found in homecare, but who need permanent supervision.

An important aspect in the complexity of the project is the requirement to have a scalable system, which will allow the automatic telemonitoring of patients anytime and anywhere, and the multitude of physically monitored features, from patient vital signs to signals for domotics (home surveillance, access control in a certain area, etc).

Main Functionalities

• TELEMON will help subjects suffering from chronic illnesses, elderly persons, people with high medical risk, and/or with neurological disorders of the locomotor system;
• The data is acquired through body and domotics sensors;
• The data can be processed locally or by the central server;
• The results can be used to locally generate specific alarms, which may be transmitted further to the generalist or specialist physician, to the ambulance unit or the hospital emergency room;
• Other results may be used to produce medical statistics needed in the evaluation of the subject’s health state, therapeutic plan, or for the overall improving of the health financing systems.

Implementation

• Programming language: C#
• Technology/Framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and Microsoft .NET Compact Framework
• Database: Microsoft SQL Express Server and SQLite

For more information please see http://www.bioinginerie.ro/telemon/.