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Arterial hypertension in pediatric patients is still an underdiagnosed entity. There are described numerous factors that can potentially interfere with blood pressure values and therefore influence arterial blood pressure variations such as: strong emotions, emotional stress, all of which, under normal blood pressure measuring techniques, can be associated with high blood pressure values, thus being established the diagnosis of arterial hypertension. An extremely important step towards the correct diagnosis of arterial hypertension in pediatric patients as well as for adults is represented by continuos holter monitoring of arterial blood pressure devices. This paper presents the importance of such devices for diagnosing arterial hypertension, and "whitecoat" hypertension, respectively, in pediatric patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work intends to define requirements to design, deploy, evaluate and validate the feasibility, efficiency and safety of an enriched telecardiology application for providing remotely ECG and Holter diagnostic/monitor services as atrial fibrillation screening. The platform must include supporting tools for e-learning that allow to operate the solution by general practitioners and patients for second opinion, best follow-up through home monitoring and on-line learning, boosted by an on-demand virtualized data recording and training infrastructure, based on a cloudified infrastructure. It can be understood as an experiment that will use a cloudified infrastructure to deploy new telecardiology related services, particularly for atrial fibrillation patients that could be monitorized from several ambulatories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]