Title :
Automatic Critical Health Care Service System Using Wireless Communication, Positioning and/or RF ID
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., BITS Pilani, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Abstract :
An automatic critical health care service system is proposed here to enable a person who becomes critically ill to request for and receive help with the click of a button on the Mobile Phone. When the patient clicks this button, the following occur simultaneously: the doctor at hospital the patient normally consults (Home Hospital/Doctor) is informed, the hospital nearest to the patient´s current location (Nearest Hospital) is informed of his/her location and patient´s critical health information is sent to the Nearest Hospital. The Nearest Hospital could dispatch an ambulance with appropriate skills and armed with critical health information of the patient. Three solutions for this automatic critical health care service system are proposed that integrate a combination of Electronic Patient Record technology, Mobile and Satellite technologies, RFID technology, GPS and other location technologies, Geographical Information System technology, and Java SIM Card technology. One of the solutions - with a Service Provider System - has been tested by designing and implementing a prototype system.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; Java; artificial satellites; biomedical communication; geographic information systems; health care; medical information systems; mobile computing; mobile handsets; radiofrequency identification; GPS; Java SIM card technology; RFID technology; ambulance; automatic critical health care service system; critically ill; electronic patient record technology; geographical information system technology; home doctor; home hospital; location technologies; mobile phone; mobile technologies; nearest hospital; patient critical health information; patient current location; prototype system; satellite technologies; service provider system; Global Positioning System; Hospitals; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Radio frequency; Wireless communication; Health care; RF ID; positioning; wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT), 2012 Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Allahabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3149-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICCCT.2012.39