HBPF: a Home Blood Pressure Framework with SLA guarantees to follow up hypertensive patients

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Cuadrado, Josep
Vilaplana Mayoral, Jordi
Mateo, Jordi
Solsona Tehàs, Francesc
Solsona, Sara
Rius Torrentó, Josep Maria
Alves, Rui
Camafort, Miguel
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Cuadrado, Josep; Vilaplana Mayoral, Jordi; Mateo, Jordi; Solsona Tehàs, Francesc; Solsona, Sara; Rius Torrentó, Josep Maria; ... Camafort, Miguel. (2016) . HBPF: a Home Blood Pressure Framework with SLA guarantees to follow up hypertensive patients. PeerJ Computer Science, 2016, vol. 2, p. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.69.
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Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition on the rise. Not only does it affect the elderly but is also increasingly spreading to younger sectors of the population. Treating it involves exhaustive monitoring of patients. A tool adapted to the particular requirements of hypertension can greatly
facilitate monitoring and diagnosis. This paper presents HBPF, an efficient cloud-based Home Blood Pressure Framework. This allows hypertensive patients to communicate with their health-care centers, thus facilitating monitoring for both patients and clinicians. HBPF provides a complete, efficient, and cross-platform framework to follow up hypertensive patients with an SLA guarantee. Response time below one second for 80,000 requests and 28% increase in peak throughput going from one to three virtual machines were obtained. In addition, a mobile app (BP) for Android and iOS with a user-friendly interface is also provided to facilitate following up hypertensive patients. Among them, between 54% and 87% favorably evaluated the tool. BP can be downloaded for free from the website Hesoft Group repository (http://www.hesoftgroup.eu).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/58763
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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.69
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