EHealth Monitoring Testbed with Fuzzy Based Early Warning Score System

Abstract Background and Objective EHealth monitoring systems are able to save the persons’ lives and track some vital physiological signs of patients, sportsmen, and soldiers for some purposes. Instant data tracking enables appropriate clinical interventions. The early warning score concept defines that specific vital human body signs that are considered together and gives the persons’ health score. The patient's vital signs are periodically recorded with the Early Warning Score (EWS) system and the illness severity score of the patient is decided manually. The aim of the study is to monitor a person's health data continuously and calculate the EWS score thanks to the fuzzy logic. Therefore, the simulation as a testbed is constructed for real-time applications with ISO/IEEE 11073 Health informatics - Medical/health device communication standard. Methods In our paper, a fuzzy-based early warning score system in the EHealth monitoring testbed is proposed. Real-time data are obtained from Riverbed Modeler simulation software with socket programming and stored in the InfluxDB using Node-Red and monitored on the remote desktop with Grafana. Results Heart rate, body temperature, systolic blood pressure, respiratory rate, and SPO2 are taken into consideration in the fuzzy-based evaluation system for EWS. The data produced in the Riverbed has been provided in a realistic manner because the real human vital sign values are considered during generating vital signs. Conclusions Using real-time Riverbed Modeler health data with fuzzy-based EWS, a more realistic testbed platform is constructed in this study.