Heuristic Evaluation of an IoMT System for Remote Health Monitoring in Senior Care
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Related Work
3. Methods
3.1. Specify the Usage Context
- Remote Monitoring: Have real-time internet-based remote monitoring of elderly’s vital signs to create a digital history of these records.
- Alert Notifications: Generate and set alerts for caregivers and family members when the IoMT system detects an unusual situation.
- Medical Record: The system must be able to store the health records and offer a simple and secure access to them in real time.
- Communication with Family: To increase the family members’ involvement in the elderly care, the IoMT system must have a function to send detailed reports of elders’ activity to the family.
3.2. Specify Requirements
3.2.1. System Architecture
3.2.2. Software Requirements
3.3. Produce Design Solutions
3.4. Evaluation
3.4.1. Participants
3.4.2. Process
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Generals
- 1.
- What is your name?
- 2.
- What is your age?
- 3.
- What is your occupation?
- 4.
- Do you have a specialty?
- 5.
- How long have you worked here?
Services
- 6.
- What services does this nursing home offer?
- 7.
- With how many rooms does it count?
- 8.
- What is the number of residents staying in this place?
- 9.
- What are the requirements to receive the elderly?
- 10.
- What type of staff does the nursing home have?
- Briefly describe the tasks and functions of each worker.
Contact with Relatives
- 11.
- What percentage of the elderly maintain contact with their relatives?
- How is the interaction of the elderly with the family?
- 12.
- Are family members aware of the health of the elderly?
- How do family members help supervise the health of the elderly?
- 13.
- How does the family intervene in case the elderly person needs medical attention?
Health Monitoring
- 14.
- How many people do you have in your care?
- 15.
- Do you have a care plan for the elderly?
- What can the care plan contain?
- Normally, what is the time interval in which elders undergo regular medical check-ups?
- 16.
- During a routine medical diagnosis, what are the physiological parameters that are obtained?
- How do you measure these values?
- Have difficulties been encountered in this process? List them.
- 17.
- Do you keep a record of the elder’s health status?
- How do you do that?
- Are there problems when carrying out the registration? List them.
- 18.
- What is the protocol to follow in case the elderly person needs medical attention?
- 19.
- What are the main challenges in the health care of an elderly person?
- 20.
- What are the needs of the elderly in terms of health?
- 21.
- What are the main diseases or conditions that the older adults treated for?
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IoT Health Monitoring | Real Time Warnings | Availability and Low Cost | Non-Invasive | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Li et al. [11] | X | X | X | |
Chandel et al. [12] | X | X | X | |
Roman et al. [13] | X | X | X | |
Our proposal | X | X | X | X |
Functional Requirement | Description |
---|---|
FR-01 | The mobile application must have user authentication. |
FR-02 | The mobile application should be able to show caregivers the latest data recorded by vital signs sensors. |
FR-03 | The mobile application must allow caregivers to open a communication module to communicate with the elderly relative. |
FR-04 | The mobile application should allow family members to open a communication module to communicate with caregivers of the elderly. |
FR-05 | The mobile application should allow the caregiver and the relative to navigate through a calendar, in order to visualize the data generated on the selected days and with the possibility of adding reminders for those days. |
FR-06 | The mobile application should allow caregivers to add, edit, or delete reports of diseases or illnesses. |
FR-07 | The mobile application should allow the caregiver to access clinical information of the elderly person as required. |
FR-08 | The mobile application should allow the relative to review information about the illnesses or diseases of the elderly. |
Non-Functional Requirement | Description |
---|---|
NFR-01 | The device with the sensors for monitoring vital signs should have Bluetooth Smart (BLE) to send the generated data to the edge microcontroller. |
NFR-02 | The smartphone must have a version of the Android operating system. |
NFR-03 | The availability of the system must be permanent (100%), service level for users 24/7. |
NFR-04 | The stored data can be consulted and updated permanently and simultaneously, without affecting the response time. |
NFR-05 | The system must have an updateable documentation that allows carrying out maintenance operations with the least possible effort. |
NFR-06 | The system must support concurrency of users according to the resources of the infrastructure. |
Expert | Genre | Age |
---|---|---|
1 (Pilot) | Male | 38 |
2 | Male | 34 |
3 | Male | 32 |
4 | Male | 55 |
5 | Male | 28 |
6 | Female | 33 |
Classification | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Can be improved | 6 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 38 |
Minor problem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Serious problem | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Critical problem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Catastrophe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 47 |
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Santana-Mancilla, P.C.; Anido-Rifón, L.E.; Contreras-Castillo, J.; Buenrostro-Mariscal, R. Heuristic Evaluation of an IoMT System for Remote Health Monitoring in Senior Care. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 1586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051586
Santana-Mancilla PC, Anido-Rifón LE, Contreras-Castillo J, Buenrostro-Mariscal R. Heuristic Evaluation of an IoMT System for Remote Health Monitoring in Senior Care. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(5):1586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051586
Chicago/Turabian StyleSantana-Mancilla, Pedro C., Luis E. Anido-Rifón, Juan Contreras-Castillo, and Raymundo Buenrostro-Mariscal. 2020. "Heuristic Evaluation of an IoMT System for Remote Health Monitoring in Senior Care" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 5: 1586. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051586