I-Corps: Mobile and E-network Smart Health (MESH)

2010年，心脏病占美国死亡人数的24.2%，在美国，每年与心脏病相关的经济成本约为4485亿美元。智能心脏护理需要在线监测、早期识别疾病模式和及时提供挽救生命的预防性护理。实时心电图（ECG）包含丰富的心脏动力学信息。然而，实现心电传感的前景在很大程度上取决于信息处理方法的进步。现有的方法越来越不能解决以病人为中心的护理的重要基本问题。提出的技术，移动和电子网络智能健康（MESH），通过无线传感器，智能移动设备和大数据分析推进心脏远程医疗。具体而言，所提出的技术使基于移动的心电传感和基于网络的信息处理能够随时随地为任何人服务（特别是在农村地区和发展中国家）。MESH技术提供了原位信息处理能力，使医生能够实时访问患者的ECG信号，与患者远程互动，并对危及生命的心脏疾病做出快速反应。MESH技术将克服早期识别急性心脏事件、个性化心脏监测和更智能的心脏健康管理方面的关键技术障碍。MESH技术将心电图带入人们的日常生活，提高大众对智能健康和幸福的意识。

Heart disease is responsible for 24.2% of the deaths in Unites States in 2010, and annual economic costs related to heart diseases are around $448.5 billion in the Unites States. Smart cardiac care calls for on-line monitoring, early identification of disease patterns and timely delivery of life-saving preventive care. Real-time electrocardiogram (ECG) contains a wealth of information on cardiac dynamics. Realizing the promise of ECG sensing, however, depends to a great extent on the advancement in information processing methodologies. Existing methodologies increasingly fail to address fundamental issues important to patient-centered care. The proposed technology, Mobile and E-network Smart Health (MESH), advances cardiac telemedicine with wireless sensors, smart mobile devices, and big data analytics. Specifically, the proposed technology enables mobile-based ECG sensing and network-based information processing for anyone, anytime and anywhere (especially in rural areas and developing countries).The MESH technology supplies in-situ information processing capabilities, and enables physicians to access the patients' ECG signals in real time, remotely interact with patients and rapidly respond to life-threatening cardiac disorders. The MESH technology will overcome critical technological barriers in the early identification of acute cardiac events, personalized cardiac monitoring, and smarter management of heart health. The MESH technology will bring the ECG to people's daily life and raise the public awareness of smarter health and wellbeing.