Remote patient health alert system

This paper explores the existing remote health monitoring systems and proposes a solution -- "Remote Patient Health Alerts system (RPHA). This system provides a way that can utilize technology to connect doctor, patient and concerned family members and friends. It offers the idea of integrating the hospital systems with RPHA system and automates the whole end to end information flow. This information can be standardized and is sent in the form of alerts to the end subscribers. It explains the proposed system that can be used to inform the registered and approved family members or friends about very critical and time sensitive information about the patient's health. This system can also be viewed as an enhancement to the existing and upcoming Remote Patient Monitoring and telemedicine solutions [1] [2]. This paper also focuses on how the similar telemedicine systems can be extended to serve a need of the concerned audience. The same audience drives the evolution of such system as they are the customers for this service. It provides a medium with which the remote and concerned family members and friends of the patient can be made aware of the patient's health using various communications technologies like internet and telecommunication networks. This paper uses US healthcare market as a model for deploying this system. Research on existing RPM solutions and regulations are US specific but this solution can be implemented in any country. Key requirements for this system are the easy accessibility using wifi or new generation telecom networks and country specific regulations for patient information privacy. This paper covers the RPHA solution design, process flow and the business case along with future possibilities. It also explains a scenario to demonstrate the end to end concept. For further discussion concerned family members and friends will be referred to as subscribers.