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 Proceedings of ICE-ISM 2014
Palembang, October 17 – 18, 2014

Electronic Data Reminder for Blood Pressure Using

Common Health Tools and Android
Leonard Goeirmanto
Computer Science Faculty, Mercu Buana University
Jl. Raya Meruya Selatan No.1, Jakarta, Indonesia
leonard@mercubuana.ac.id

Abstract—Blood pressure is an important parameter for personal
healthcare. A non-invasive method using common health tool is
convenient for patient. Hypertension and hypotension are
unnormal condition in blood pressure. History of blood pressure
values can show cardiovascular and other organs condition.
Application in android helps user to record their blood pressure
values. Electronic data record can be shown in the android
device. In this paper, review of application usage from patients
and physicians are discussed for further development and
improvement.
Keywords—blood pressure, android, healthcare, patient,
physician.
I. INTRODUCTION
These days, people pay more attention about their health.
Exercise and vitamin are already taken into account for people
who want to be fit. Medical check is one of several activities
which should to be done in order to know about health
condition.
In big cities, most busy people do not have time to do
exercise. Some of them also eat not healthy food like junk
food regularly. Beside of parental history, food and life style
cause high blood pressure (hypertension). Smooking and
obese also make health condition worse. Hypotension or low
blood pressure occur in people who do not have time to do
exercise.
In Indonesia, almost every drugstore has equipment to
check blood pressure. Some of them are handy tools which
can be moved and used easily. Since there are many common
health tools to get blood pressure value, the value and other
physiological parameters have been used to prevent
cardiovascular diseases. Usually blood pressure value as result
of health care test is not saved in electronic device.
Application in android smartphone is developed to record
blood pressure value. If the user have some values in the
application, it can be shown as historical values. Historical
values help physician to analyse cardiovascular condition.
II. THEORY
Blood pressure value consists of systolic and diastolic
values in mmHg. Normal value of blood pressure is around
120/80 mmHg [1]. The first value is for systolic and other for
diastolic. Prehypertension is a condition when systolic value
120-139 and diastolic value 80-89 mmHg. A person has
hypertension if blood pressure value 140-179 / 90-109 mmHg.
If the value of systolic higher than 180 or diastolic value
higher than 110, it is called critical hypertension and need
emergency care to safe their lifes.
Low blood pressure is called hypotension and cause some
seious ill to people. When a blood pressure reading less than
90 for systolic and less than 60mmHg for diastolic, it is
considered low blood pressure. Hypotension can cause
symptoms of dizziness and fainting for many people. Usually
hypotension cause headache and black out in sudden.
TABLE I
BLOOD PRESSURE
Cat Blood Pressure Value (mmHg)
Condition Systolic Diastolic
A Hypotension 90 or lower 60 or lower
B Normal less than 120 less than 80
Prehypertension 120-139 80-89
Hypertension stage 1 140-159 90-99
Hypertension stage 2 160 or higher 100 0r higher
C Hypertensive crisis higher than higher than
180 110
Information based on American Heart Association
Common health blood pressure tool for monitoring has
gained in popularity while it is relatively low cost of
automated device [5]. Home monitoring or using common
tool is well accepted by patient and provides the ability to
detect hypertension or hypotension [6]. When unnormal case
occurs, patient has to do another test using other device.
Result of every blood pressure test should be recorded for
further analysis.
Continuous and non-invasive blood pressure measurement
method is desirable for patient monitoring especially for
unnormal case, whether in hospital, at drugstore or at home
[2]. Usually, the existing methods to get arterial blood
pressure value for noninvasively include tools such as cuff
sphygmomanometer, arterial tonometer, and pulse transit time
method [4]. Normally, patients just look the result but never
record it or only write it down on paper, these methods may
not be very effective. It is is not easy for a physician to
understand the record if the patient forgets to record part of

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the data [3]. Application in android in this paper help patient It is also help patient to save data record especially for
to record data and physician to analyse data. hypertension or hypotension case.

III. METHOD
The aim of this paper is to design and implement a
noninvasive application in android for monitoring blood
pressure value. It also help physician to understand and
analyse blood pressure value records. It have a menu for
patient to input blood pressure value.
Application in this paper is not connected to other
measurement device. It is only a tool to record data and check
condition based on data. Application also can show all data
which are recorded regularly. It is developed using HTML 5
and Jquery programming language. In layout design,
application can be used in potrait or landscape position. It has
white as background default colour.
Application is installed in anddroid smartphones and being
used by twenty patients. Every patient record blood pressure
value every day in three weeks. Blood pressure record then is
shown to physician for further analysis.

IV. RESULT AND DISCUSSION Fig. 2 Menu to Show Blood Pressure Records in The Application

Application is developed in four weeks and being compiled

to set apk file as android’s installer. Installer is copied to
removable memory card and installed to the smartphone.
After installation successful, application can be used and
patient can input value after blood pressure test in the
application, as seen at fig 1.
After three weeks data recorded, every user are asked about
user experience using application. Most of user are satisfied
using application. Two user ask about automatic splash
information after input data. One user ask about another
background colour as option menu. Application run 100% free
from error and it responsible time less thank one second in
user experience.
Physicians also being asked about their experience read
data record from application. Four physicians were
participated in this test. Three physicians like application
menu and one physician ask about blink information if data
record is hypertension or hypotension. Blink information is a
useful reminder for physician when data record has a long list.
Blink information can use red colour for hypertensiion and
blue colour for hypotension. Other categories are already
useful for physician.

TABLE 2
PATIENT EXPERIENCE

Cat User Experience

Patient Like Dislike
A Application menu 90% 10%
B Application layout 95% 5%
Fig. 1 Menu for Input Blood Pressure Value in The Application C Application usage 100% 0%

Fig. 2 shows recorded data which is already sorted TABLE 3

PHYSICIAN EXPERIENCE
ascending based on date of input. In the menu, user can see all
recorded data and also click every data to get blood pressure Cat User Experience
value. User may scroll up or down to see data if there is long Physician Like Dislike
data list. A Application menu 75% 25%
User or patient can show recorded data to physician during B Application layout 100% 0%
visit and dicuss about it. It is helpful for physician because can C Application usage 100% 0%
track every recorded data and knows the blood pressure value.

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V. CONCLUSIONS
After one month trial with patients and physicians,
application received good evaluation. Patients can learn how
to operate the touchpanel program in a short period of time
(less than one hour) and user can carry their smartphones with
them. User can use application to input blood pressure value
and evaluate it. All recorded data can be shown as a list for
physician’s analysis.
By user experience, application can be developed in the
future by giving backgorund colour option. Splash
information about blood pressure evaluation after being input
by user also a helpful method. List of recorded data is
separated using colourful blink for hypertension or
hypotension value. It helps physician to know patient’s
condition faster.

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