Title :
An Electronic Health Care - Cardiac Monitoring System
Author :
Le, Hanh ; Kuttel, Michelle ; Chandran, Gregory
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Abstract :
To address the issue of increasing health care costs and overcrowded care giving institutions, there is an increasing focus on the use of mobile technology and biological sensors in developing better Tele-health systems. Remote monitoring of cardiac activity is a central endeavor of Telemedicine. This article describes the implementation and evaluation of the performance of an electronic health ECG monitoring system utilizing mobile phones and Bluetooth-enabled ECG sensors.
Keywords :
electrocardiography; health care; mobile radio; telemedicine; Bluetooth-enabled ECG sensors; ECG monitoring system; biological sensors; cardiac monitoring system; electronic health care; mobile phones; mobile technology; remote monitoring; tele-health systems; telemedicine; Africa; Biomedical monitoring; Costs; Electrocardiography; Medical services; Mobile handsets; Network servers; Patient monitoring; Remote monitoring; Sensor systems;
Conference_Titel :
Communications Workshops (ICC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Capetown
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6824-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCW.2010.5503907
