TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving compliance in remote healthcare systems through smartphone battery optimization
AU - Alshurafa, Nabil
AU - Eastwood, Jo Ann
AU - Nyamathi, Suneil
AU - Liu, Jason J.
AU - Xu, Wenyao
AU - Ghasemzadeh, Hassan
AU - Pourhomayoun, Mohammad
AU - Sarrafzadeh, Majid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Remote health monitoring (RHM) has emerged as a solution to help reduce the cost burden of unhealthy lifestyles and aging populations. Enhancing compliance to prescribed medical regimens is an essential challenge to many systems, even those using smartphone technology. In this paper, we provide a technique to improve smartphone battery consumption and examine the effects of smartphone battery lifetime on compliance, in an attempt to enhance users' adherence to remote monitoring systems. We deploy WANDA-CVD, an RHM system for patients at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), using a wearable smartphone for detection of physical activity. We tested the battery optimization technique in an in-lab pilot study and validated its effects on compliance in the Women's Heart Health Study. The battery optimization technique enhanced the battery lifetime by 192% on average, resulting in a 53% increase in compliance in the study. A system like WANDA-CVD can help increase smartphone battery lifetime for RHM systems monitoring physical activity.
AB - Remote health monitoring (RHM) has emerged as a solution to help reduce the cost burden of unhealthy lifestyles and aging populations. Enhancing compliance to prescribed medical regimens is an essential challenge to many systems, even those using smartphone technology. In this paper, we provide a technique to improve smartphone battery consumption and examine the effects of smartphone battery lifetime on compliance, in an attempt to enhance users' adherence to remote monitoring systems. We deploy WANDA-CVD, an RHM system for patients at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), using a wearable smartphone for detection of physical activity. We tested the battery optimization technique in an in-lab pilot study and validated its effects on compliance in the Women's Heart Health Study. The battery optimization technique enhanced the battery lifetime by 192% on average, resulting in a 53% increase in compliance in the study. A system like WANDA-CVD can help increase smartphone battery lifetime for RHM systems monitoring physical activity.
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U2 - 10.1109/JBHI.2014.2329712
DO - 10.1109/JBHI.2014.2329712
M3 - Article
C2 - 24951710
AN - SCOPUS:84920989966
SN - 2168-2194
VL - 19
SP - 57
EP - 63
JO - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
JF - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
IS - 1
M1 - 6827927
ER -