A new mobile phone-based ECG monitoring system.
We have developed a system for monitoring a patient's electrocardiogram (ECG) and movement during daily activities. The complete system is mounted on chest electrodes and continuously samples the ECG and three axis accelerations. When the patient feels a heart discomfort, he or she pushes the data transmission switch on the recording system and the system sends the recorded ECG waveforms and three axis accelerations of the two prior minutes, and for two minutes after the switch is pressed. The data goes directly to a hospital server computer via a 2.4 GHz low power mobile phone. These data are stored on a server computer and downloaded to the physician's Java mobile phone. The physician can display the data on the phone's liquid crystal display.
Iwamoto
Junichi
J
Dept. of Electronics, Hiroshima Inst. of Technology, Hiroshima 731-5193, Japan.
Yonezawa
Yoshiharu
Y
Ogawa
Hiromichi Maki Hidekuni
HM
Ninomiya
Ishio
I
Sada
Kouji
K
Hamada
Shingo
S
Hahn
Allen W
AW
Caldwell
W Morton
WM
D000054:Acceleration; D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D040421:Cell Phone; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface