title: Angelcare mobile system: homecare patient monitoring using bluetooth and GPRS.
abstract: The quick progress in technology has brought new paradigms to the computing area, bringing with them many benefits to society. The paradigm of ubiquitous computing brings innovations applying computing in people's daily life without being noticed. For this, it has used the combination of several existing technologies like wireless communications and sensors. Several of the benefits have reached the medical area, bringing new methods of surgery, appointments and examinations. This work presents telemedicine software that adds the idea of ubiquity to the medical area, innovating the relation between doctor and patient. It also brings security and confidence to a patient being monitored in homecare.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Automation in Petroleum (LAUT) of Automation and Computation Department, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, RN, CEP 59072-970, Brazil. agiselle@dca.ufm.br
authors.forename: Anna G D
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: Andre L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Maitelli
authors.forename: Ricardo A M
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Valentim
authors.forename: Glaucio B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Brandao
authors.forename: Ana M G
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Guerreiro
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003196:Computer Graphics; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000295:instrumentation; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface