Heart disease is known as one of the main causes of human fatalities across the planet. Roughly 2.8 million individuals die every year because of obesity, for it can prompt fatal metabolic consequences on blood pressure and cholesterol, which at last builds the risk of coronary disease, ischemic stroke, diabetes mellitus, and various types of cancer. The Centers for Disease Control unleashes that coronary illness is the leading cause of death in the United States. It also reveals that the widely recognized kind of heart disease is coronary artery disease (CAD), which can prompt a cardiovascular failure/ heart attack.
The World Health Organization assessed that coronary disease might increment to 23.3% across the globe by 2030. This staggering percentage discloses that humans are vulnerable to such a disease, like never before. Thus, it is necessary to manage health adequately, including monitoring heart health to keep a check.
However, thankfully there are approaches to reduce the risk of heath diseases, including giving up a sedentary lifestyle and embracing a healthy way of life. There is also a range of diagnostic tools present to monitor the status of heart health. One such incredible tool is the heart monitoring system.
The Emergence of Heart Monitoring System
Researchers began checking pulses in 1912, utilizing water pails as stabilizers in the primary lab model. The first electronic heart-monitoring apparatus, the electrocardiograph, was initially the size of a room.
Fortunately, today we have personal heart monitoring systems. It may not do everything the electrocardiograph in your primary care physician’s office does, yet it does pleasantly fill the requirements for any individual who needs to keep an eye on their heart health precisely. The modern-day heart monitoring system is the size of a wristwatch.
Heart monitoring systems are widely common in the modern realm of healthcare. These systems have been praised as one milestone innovation facilitating the diagnostic procedure of heart’s health status. It employs the heart signals produced during each cardiac cycle, converting them into another form of a signal, to analyze heart functionality.
The mechanism for the functioning of the heart monitoring system, was first invented by Bao Tran, Founder of the Patent Law Office. The invention included one or more wireless nodes; and a wearable appliance in communication with one or more wireless nodes. The appliance was used to monitor the vital signs.
Registered Patent Attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Bao Tran is the founding patent attorney of Patent Law Office, with over two decades of expertise in the field of over and intellectual property law.
Filed in 2012, the concept of ‘health monitoring system’ is patented innovation under the name of Bao Tran (US8323189B2). Without a doubt, this innovation incorporating wearable appliances comprising of EKG detector, electromagnetic detector, ECG detector, an optical detector, ultrasonic detector, NIBP, SpO2, respiration, temperature, end-tidal CO2 monitoring, and anesthetic gas analyze serves as the ultimate tool for health management. In fact, the idea has led to the success of Telemedicine, empowering healthcare providers to manage the care provision of patients with chronic illness, better.
The Rise of Telemedicine
During the last decade, fast headways in health care service and low-cost wireless communication have significantly helped with adapting to the issue of fewer medical facilities. The integration of mobile communication with wearable sensors has encouraged the shift of healthcare provision from clinic-centric to patient-centric and is named as “Telemedicine.” The shift has been evident amid pandemic, where telemedicine ensured that the lives of patients with chronic illnesses were not put at stake, in wake of the pandemic-strained healthcare system.
In the bigger viewpoint, telemedicine can be of two sorts: (1) live communication type, where the presence of the specialist and patient is essential with the extra requirement of high transfer speed and great data speed, and (2) store and forward type, which requires obtaining of medical parameters like vital signs, pictures, recordings, and transmission of patient’s information to a concerned specialist in the clinic.
As per existing clinical reviews, telemedicine has been adopted to manage the care of patients with heart diseases, diabetes, hypotension, hypertension, hyperthermia, and hypothermia. The most encouraging application is progressively observing chronic illnesses like cardiopulmonary illness, asthma, and heart failure in patients situated far from the clinical offices through a remote monitoring framework. Bao Tran’s invention has been phenomenal in this regard, for it comprised a heart disease recognizer to detect stroke symptoms or heart attack symptoms. The invention also had a hospital or operating room patient monitoring equipment coupled to the wireless node, to ensure the smooth transfer of patient information.
The Bottom Line
With a heart disease recognizer to detect stroke symptom or heart attack symptom, a database to store patient information, and a database to store medicine taking habits, eating and drinking habits, sleeping habits, or exercise habits, the ‘heart monitoring system’ serves as the beacon of hope for patients with cardiovascular disease. This invention also provides a chance for humans to get in control of their health, in order to diminish the risk of predicted, ever-increasing risk of heart diseases.
