title: MobiHealth: ambulant patient monitoring over next generation public wireless networks.
abstract: The wide availability of high bandwidth public wireless networks as well as the miniaturisation of medical sensors and network access hardware allows the development of advanced ambulant patient monitoring systems. The MobiHealth project developed a complete system and service that allows the continuous monitoring of vital signals and their transmission to the health care institutes in real time using GPRS and UMTS networks. The MobiHealth system is based on the concept of a Body Area Network (BAN) allowing high personalization of the monitored signals and thus adaptation to different classes of patients. The system and service has been trialed in four European countries and for different patient cases. First results confirm the usefulness of the system and the advantages it offers to patients and medical personnel.
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: Dimitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Konstantas
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: Val
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Ing
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Widya
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D009426:Netherlands; D017150:Public Sector; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical