Mobile patient monitoring: the MobiHealth system.
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.
Konstantas
Dimitri
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University of Twente, EWI/CTIT, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.
van Halteren
Aart
A
Bults
Richard
R
Wac
Katarzyna
K
Widya
Ing
I
Dokovsky
Nicolai
N
Koprinkov
George
G
Jones
Val
V
Herzog
Rainer
R
D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*