title: Wireless body area networks for healthcare: the MobiHealth project.
abstract: The forthcoming wide availability of high bandwidth public wireless networks will give rise to new mobile health care services. Towards this direction the MobiHealth project has developed and trialed a highly customisable vital signals' monitoring system based on a Body Area Network (BAN) and an m-health service platform utilizing next generation public wireless networks. The developed system allows the incorporation of diverse medical sensors via wireless connections, and the live transmission of the measured vital signals over public wireless networks to healthcare providers. Nine trials with different health care cases and patient groups in four different European countries have been conducted to test and verify the system, the service and the network infrastructure for its suitability and the restrictions it imposes to mobile health care applications.
authors.affiliation: University of Twente, EWI/CTIT, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Aart
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Halteren
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bults
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wac
authors.forename: Nicolai
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dokovsky
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Koprinkov
authors.forename: Ing
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Widya
authors.forename: Dimitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Konstantas
authors.forename: Val
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Herzog
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005060:Europe; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000379:methods; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*