title: Transmitting patient and device data via GSM--central management for decentral mobile medical devices.
abstract: Equipping medical devices with long range telemetry opens completely new possibilities for emergency response, home care and remote diagnosis. Mobile communications nowadays seem to be a generally accepted part of our modern world, but bridging the gap between new (consumer-) technologies and medical devices still is a challenge today. Providing a telemetry link (GSM) is just the trivial part--ensuring security, reliability and service management are the more critical tasks that need to be addressed. Therefore, a complete system concept consists of an automatic fleet management (e.g. periodic device-initiated service calls) as well as customer relationship management (CRM), including technical service and a trouble-ticket system.
authors.affiliation: FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany. bachmor@fzi.de
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bachmor
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schöchlin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bolz
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003253:Consultants; D004868:Equipment Failure; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000379:methods; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*