EBPlatform: An IoT-based system for NCD patients homecare in China

The number of Non-communicable disease (NCD) patients in China is growing rapidly, which is far beyond the capacity of the national health and social security system. Community health stations do not have enough doctors to take care of their patients in traditional ways. In order to establish a bridge between doctors and patients, we propose eBPlatform, which is an information system based on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology for homecare of the NCD patients. The eBox is a sensor which can be deployed in the patient's home for blood pressure measurement, blood sugar measurement and ECG signals collection. Some services are running on the remote server, which can receive the samples, filter and analyze the ECG signals. The uploaded data will be pushed to a web portal, with which doctors provide treatments online. The system requirements, design and implementation of hardware and software are discussed respectively. Finally, we investigate a case study with 50 NCD patients for half a year in Beijing. The results show that eBPlatform can increase the efficiency of the doctor and make a big progress to eliminate the numerical imbalance between community medical practitioners and NCD patients.