title: A communication server for telemedicine applications.
abstract: The telemedicine applications, in some cases, need multipoint-to-multipoint communication. To meet the requirement of telemedicine communication, the development of a medical communication server is proposed in this paper. To make a working, as well as cost-effective, communication platform for the telemedicine applications, a specially designed communication server model is proposed in this work. This server is able to provide an effective multipoint-to-multipoint communication service for any level applications in telemedicine. The implementation program of this server is developed in a Windows'95 environment by using a winsocket. The trial application testing in a telemonitoring system is also presented to demonstrate the feasibility of taking such a structure with the server. By using the architecture of such a communication server in telemedicine applications, the multipoint-to-multipoint communication is easily managed and the communication processes are simplified and well controlled by the server.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Life Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing. deabj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ye
mesh_terms: D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D003198:Computer Simulation; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D017216:Telemedicine