Title :
Wireless interface for monitored patients in coronary care units
Author :
Presedo, J. ; Castro, D. ; Vila, J. ; Fernández-Delgado, M. ; Fraga, S. ; Larna, M. ; Barro, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Santiago de Compostela Univ., Spain
Abstract :
Describes a personal alert and a information access interface, which enables physicians in Coronary Care Units remote access to a data base which include monitoring information of any patient, and which covers the function of real-time alerting the physicians to important eventualities that are produced in relation to the different patients being monitored. This interface runs on a PDA in the form of a “palm-top PC”, with Windows CE operating system
Keywords :
cardiology; computerised monitoring; graphical user interfaces; medical computing; notebook computers; patient care; patient monitoring; telemedicine; Windows CE operating system; coronary care units; medical database; monitored patients; palm-top PC; personal alert; wireless interface; Biomedical monitoring; Computerized monitoring; Instruments; Intelligent systems; Operating systems; Patient monitoring; Remote monitoring; Signal processing; Telemedicine; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6465-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2000.900472