A Study of Healthcare System for Patient Location Data Based on LBS

Author

Ahn, Jinsoo ; Heo, Jungil ; Lim, Suyoung ; Seo, Jungho ; Kim, Wooshik

Author_Institution

Dept. Inf. & Commun. Eng., Sejong Univ., Seoul

fYear

2008

fDate

9-13 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

As development of wireless communication technology has promoted mobility, location based service (LBS) became embossed. The LBS is a service to recognize and utilize a location of a person or a thing through a device that ensures mobility based on wireless communication network. This paper thus researches on healthcare method to respond to emergency rapidly by recognizing a patient´s location with the LBS. The LBS also provides location information of a user as well as remote management of organism data such as ECG data or pulse, which is transferred to a hospital or an emergency room.

Keywords

electrocardiography; health care; mobility management (mobile radio); ECG; healthcare system; location based services; patient location; wireless communication technology; Biomedical measurements; Disaster management; Electric variables measurement; Electrocardiography; Global Positioning System; Medical services; Position measurement; Satellites; Sensor systems; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2008. ICCE 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1458-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1459-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2008.4588085

Filename

4588085