This paper proposes elderly patients' health monitoring architecture based on an intelligent task mapping approach for a closed-loop IoT healthcare environment. A conceptual diagram of the proposed E-PHMS in a closed-loop healthcare environment is given in Figure 1. An elderly patient is monitored in three scenarios, smart home, smart ambulance, and smart hospital. E-PHMS is designed with alarming threshold profiles to detect and notify anomalies in the vital signs to healthcare authorities.
If a patient outbreak is detected in the smart home, the patient is transferred to a smart ambulance environment and monitored through the proposed E-PHMS. In the smart ambulance, patient vital signs are continuously monitored and visualized on the hospital's emergency dashboard. Once the elderly patient is hospitalized to the intensive care unit (ICU), the system monitors the vital signs and provides descriptive and predictive analysis on the patient data. When elderly patients' health conditions are recovered, they are discharged and transferred to the smart home and monitored continuously.
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