MobiHealth: ambulant patient monitoring over next generation public wireless networks.
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.
van Halteren
Aart
A
University of Twente, EWI/CTIT P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.
Konstantas
Dimitri
D
Bults
Richard
R
Wac
Katarzyna
K
Dokovsky
Nicolai
N
Koprinkov
George
G
Jones
Val
V
Widya
Ing
I
D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D009426:Netherlands; D017150:Public Sector; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical