title: Mobile communications for monitoring heart disease and diabetes.
abstract: This paper describes a practical development project to enable the monitoring of vital signs data obtained from patients located in remote rural locations. The data are gathered from a wireless network of sensors attached to a patient's body and stored locally for secure transmission over existing communication infrastructures to a hospital server. Clinicians are then able to monitor the patient offline and upload diagnoses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University LE11 3TU, UK. d.j.mulvaney@lboro.ac.uk
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mulvaney
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Woodward
authors.forename: Sekharjit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.forename: Anoop
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vyas
authors.forename: Bashkar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thakker
authors.forename: Omar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Farooq
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016494:Computer Security; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation; D004867:Equipment Design; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface