title: A high-availability architecture for continuous monitoring of sleep disorders.
abstract: We present a complete technical solution for continuously monitoring vital signs required for observing sleep apnoea events, one of the major sleep respiratory disorders. Based on industry accepted medical devices, we developed a GSM-based remote data acquisition and transfer module that is integrated via a set of web services into the server side of the application. The back-end is responsible with aggregating all the data, and, based on machine learning techniques, it provides a first level of filtering in order to warn about possible abnormalities. The proposed solution is currently under the test phase at the "Victor Babes" Hospital in Timisoara, Romania.
authors.affiliation: Politehnica University of Timisoara.
authors.forename: Alexandru
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iovanovici
authors.affiliation: Politehnica University of Timisoara.
authors.forename: Alexandru
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Topirceanu
authors.affiliation: Politehnica University of Timisoara.
authors.forename: Mihai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Udrescu
authors.affiliation: Politehnica University of Timisoara.
authors.forename: Lucian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Prodan
authors.affiliation: "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mihaicuta
mesh_terms: D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods; D063731:Mobile Applications; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000379:methods*; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*