Mobile patient monitoring: The MobiHealth system

Author

Wac, K. ; Bults, R. ; van Beijnum, B. ; Widya, I. ; Jones, V. ; Konstantas, D. ; Vollenbroek-Hutten, M. ; Hermens, H.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1238

Lastpage

1241

Abstract

The emergence of high bandwidth public wireless networks and miniaturized personal mobile devices give rise to new mobile healthcare services. To this end, the MobiHealth system provides highly customizable vital signs tele-monitoring and tele-treatment system based on a body area network (BAN) and a mobile health care (m-health) service platform utilizing next generation public wireless networks. The developed system allows the incorporation of diverse medical sensors via wireless connections, and the live transmission of the measured vital signs to healthcare providers as well as real-time feedback to the patient. Since 2002 the system has undergone substantial development in consecutive EU and national research projects. Diverse trials with different healthcare scenarios and patient groups in different European countries have been conducted in all projects. These have been performed to test the service and the network infrastructure including its suitability for m-health applications.

Keywords

body area networks; health care; mobile communication; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; telemedicine; MobiHealth system; body area network; high bandwidth public wireless networks; live transmission; miniaturized personal mobile devices; mobile health care service; mobile patient monitoring; real-time feedback; teletreatment system; vital signs telemonitoring; wireless connections; Biomedical Engineering; Cellular Phone; Humans; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Telemedicine; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3296-7

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333477

Filename

5333477