Wearable Healthcare Monitoring System for Remote Areas

Pervasiveness of continual diseases and outburst of infectious diseases are some of the major challenges for the present day world. Wearable Healthcare monitoring system is very important and necessary especially in remote areas because many primary healthcare clinics in rural areas do not have any healthcare electronic systems and continue to operate on paper based systems and patients have to keep their medical records by themselves. To overcome the unfulfilled healthcare needs, early prediction and treatment of diseases and acquisition, processing, transmission, storage and retrieval of physiological information has emerged as an active area of research. In this paper a smart wearable healthcare monitoring system for the remote patient is designed using an ultra-low power MSP430 microcontroller. The proposed system aims to design a low power consuming, cost effective, light weight healthcare monitoring system. The simulation result of proposed system and comparison with existing system considering power consumption are discussed in the result section.