HealthNet: A System for Mobile and Wearable Health Information Management

Medical health care is undergoing a significant change of paradigm. Moving health care from health centers to home environments poses new challenges for acquisition, manage-ment and mobile exchange of information. The HealthNet project at RWTH Aachen University has developed a proto-type which addresses these new challenges: a Body Sensor Network (BSN) collects information about the vital func-tions of a patient while she is in her home environment; the integration of smart textile sensors increases the accept-ability of such technology; mobile communication and data management enables the exchange of health data between patients and doctors; data stream mining techniques tuned for mobile devices provide immediate feedback of the col-lected data to the user; and finally, advanced security and privacy features increase user acceptance and cope with le-gal requirements. This paper summarizes the challenges and achievements in the development of this prototype