A cloud based web analysis and reporting of vital signs

To address the rising costs of health care accessibility, we propose a solution that takes advantage of the ubiquity of broadband wireless coverage and wide spread usage of smart phones around the world. The solution presents a web based health monitoring system that takes advantage of mobile capability, cloud storage and high speed access. The solution enables health care providers to remotely monitor, analyze and diagnose patient's data. This is possible thanks to the low cost ability to exchange data through the web (Cloud) with data processing servers. This paper presents a proof of concept that has been developed to monitor, record, and analyze heart rate through digital stethoscope. The design enables a physician to develop custom analysis and monitoring to collect key indicator or set alerts without a need for infrastructure implementations to store or transfer the data.

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