title: Community-Based ECG Monitoring System for Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases.
abstract: This study aims to develop a community-based electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system for cardiac outpatients to wirelessly detect heart rate, provide personalized healthcare, and enhance interactive social contact because of the prevalence of deaths from cardiovascular disease and the growing problem of aging in the world. The system not only strengthens the performance of the ECG monitoring system but also emphasizes the ergonomic design of wearable devices and user interfaces. In addition, it enables medical professionals to diagnose cardiac symptoms remotely and electronically manage medical reports and suggestions. The experimental result shows high performance of the dry electrode, even in dynamic conditions. The comparison result with different ECG healthcare systems shows the essential factors that the system should possess and the capability of the proposed system. Finally, a user survey was conducted based on the unified theory of acceptance and users of technology (UTAUT) model.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Bor-Shyh
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.|Department of Industrial Design, Product Design and Development Laboratory, College of Management, Chang Gung University, 259 Wenhua 1st Road, Guishan District, Taoyuan, 33302, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Alice M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Design, Product Design and Development Laboratory, College of Management, Chang Gung University, 259 Wenhua 1st Road, Guishan District, Taoyuan, 33302, Taiwan, Republic of China. ktseng@pddlab.org.|Healthy Aging Research Centre, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. ktseng@pddlab.org.
authors.forename: Kevin C
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4601-0143
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Tseng
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Cardiovascular diseases; Dry electrode; Electrocardiogram; Human-computer interaction