XML Based Wireless Patient Monitoring System Using Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

The technology based ubiquitous patient monitoring is regarded as a viable solution for managing the chronic diseases and medical emergencies in order to economize the healthcare services. The reliability of end to end communication between patients and healthcare services in wireless patient monitoring is the critical requirement in such systems irrespective of time and location dependencies. In this paper, a new wireless patient monitoring service called V-Health System is proposed which utilizes the patient health information collected by the body sensors to securely transmit it to the healthcare services wireless via vehicular ad hoc network. The patient information collected by body sensors are transmitted by the vehicle in the form of XML data to the nearest road side infrastructure for the service selection of the healthcare centres and the information is transmitted to the healthcentres for the appropriate service reply. The XML dependency tree is used for the effective transmission of patient and medical information in the vehicular ad hoc network. VANETs act as the middleware platform for medical service selection between the patient and the healthcare services for the mobile patients and vehicular users. Thus, the proposed V-Health System provides personalized healthcare services by employing the XML based dependency tree for information transmission.