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

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Cuadrado, Josep
Solsona, Sara
Camafort, Miguel
Torres, Gerard
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Cuadrado, Josep;
Vilaplana Mayoral, Jordi;
Mateo Fornés, Jordi;
Solsona Tehàs, Francesc;
Solsona, Sara;
Rius Torrentó, Josep Maria;
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Fernández i Giráldez, Elvira.
(2016)
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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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