In order to maintain close supervision of the health conditions of chronically ill patients, long-term
(chronic) care facilities provide accommodation and ”hotel-style” services to these patients, in addition to
long-term monitoring of their health conditions [1].
The rise in the number of chronically ill people has resulted in an ever-increasing burden on long-term
care facilities, to the point that the cost of maintaining these facilities has or in the near future will become
unsustainable [2].
Leveraging the fact that not all chronically ill patients require accommodation and assistive services
provided by long-term care facilities, some patients can be offloaded from long-term care facilities, and
allowed to live in their own homes, where their health conditions would be remotely monitored. Recent
studies [3] show that not only consumers are willing to pay for remote/mobile health monitoring, but also
caregivers are showing more interest in using mobile technologies to provide convenient and agile health
monitoring. Throughout this paper, caregivers refers to healthcare professionals, physicians, and any relative
in concern of a patient.
have made mobile devices an increasingly attractive platform for delivering remote patient health monitoring
services. This paper demonstrates the capability of mobile devices to provide mobile, low-cost, and efficient remote
health monitoring through a mobile Web services-based approach. The proposed approach shows an agile, flexible,
interoperable, and economical alternative to existing remote health monitoring systems.