title: Indoor Telemedicine in Hospital: a PDA-based Flexible Solution for Wireless Monitoring and Database Integration.
abstract: An integrated information flexible system is proposed in this paper for indoor medical applications. The system is intended to provide clinicians with a portable device enabling to discover and recognize patients and easily access their electronic record in a fast and secure way for consultation or updating. Moreover the developed solution allows communication with medical equipments for wireless monitoring of patients biosignals. Requirements for such a system are therefore high flexibility and mobility, as well as fast and secure wireless communication. These features were achieved combining the use of Bluetooth technology with a Personal Digital Assistant, which was provided with a multilayer software architecture to allow easy access to Hospital database and to communicate with external medical devices. A prototype was also realized and the testing phase has indicated good performances on both patient discovery and wireless monitoring.
authors.affiliation: Enterprise Digital Architects, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Salamon
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bei
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grigioni
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gianni
authors.forename: Micaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liberti
authors.forename: Guglielmo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: D'Inzeo
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Luca