Service Agreements and Facilities for M-Health Vital Sign Monitoring
Liu Puming · 2006
Ubiquity of wireless access to the Internet and the advancements of mobile devices enable mobile healthcare (M-Health). This is for instance shown by the EU and national projects MobiHealth, HealthServices24 and Freeband/AWARENESS. These projects develop and improve a sensor based healthcare monitoring and treatment system for several care programs (e.g. 24h cardiac monitoring and supervised COPD outdoor training). This thesis focuses on the data transfer facilities for flexible vital sign monitoring, including the necessary agreements on the involved service subscription and use between the involved stakeholders of an M-Health monitoring system, like the patients, the care centers and the service providers of the supporting network services. UML class diagram models are defined to capture the services. The notion of Service Level Agreement is used to specify the mentioned relationships. The model enables the mapping of the vital sign quality parameters to network service capacity needs that are able to transfer of the vital signs. One of the issues in the design of the UML class diagram is how to model the required