Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
A telematics solution for the remote follow-up of malnourished children in underserved areas
Año:2013
Áreas de investigación
  • Tecnología electrónica y de las comunicaciones,
  • Ciencias de la computación y tecnología informática
Datos
Descripción
The identification of malnourished children living under extreme poverty conditions in isolated areas is crucial to trigger urgent interventions like supplementary or therapeutic feeding. This work aims to strengthen the task of following-up malnourished maternal-child population in rural areas of developing countries like Nicaragua. The solution facilitates low-cost health nutritional remote monitoring to support rural communities at the point of care. Thus, the system allows medical staff to communicate with brigades, who transmit anthropometric measurements, such as weight and height of the children, from communities which are sited about 12 km. far away. A hybrid WiMAX/WiFi architecture was deployed to provide affordable communications between the isolated communities and the health center. Furthermore, a free PBX software and an open information system, installed at the health center, support WiFi based mobile communications and information management to support the care needs of maternal-child population at risk.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on Point-of-Care (POC) Healthcare Technologies
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Bangalore
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-1-4673-2765-7
DOI
10.1109/PHT.2013.6461285
Fecha inicio congreso
16/01/2013
Fecha fin congreso
18/01/2013
Desde la página
65
Hasta la página
68
Título de las actas
Point-of-Care Healthcare Technologies (PHT), 2013 IEEE
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Participantes
  • Autor: Sury Bravo Lasprilla UPM
  • Autor: Miguel Angel Valero Duboy UPM
  • Autor: José R. Blandino UNA
  • Autor: Mario Ruiz Centro de Salud de Cusmapa
Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Sistemas Telemáticos para la Sociedad de la Información y el conocimiento
  • Departamento: Ingeniería y Arquitecturas Telemáticas