Unconfined mobile Bluetooth nursing and daily data collection

Author

Luo, Xuanwen ; Cheng, Qiang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2004

Firstpage

693

Lastpage

696

Abstract

The increasing nursing shortage makes people turn to cutting-edge technology. Nursing systems utilizing the Bluetooth technique have appeared as an alternative to the shortage. They give patients the freedom of moving around. However, the mobility is confined inside the ward, hospital or house. This paper proposed a nursing system prototype by making use of the existing cell phone network. It has flexibility and allows the patients to go anywhere they like while still providing the same good medical care service. As an additional benefit, the proposed prototype can free people from the trivial typing burden in computer data management.

Keywords

Bluetooth; biomedical communication; cellular radio; medical computing; medical information systems; patient care; patient monitoring; cell phone network; computer data management; medical care service; nursing shortage; patient daily data collection; patient movement freedom; unconfined mobile Bluetooth nursing; Biomedical imaging; Bluetooth; Cellular phones; Hospitals; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Sensor systems; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004. First IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8145-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2004.1286959

Filename

1286959