Mobile communications for monitoring heart disease and diabetes

Author

Mulvaney, David ; Woodward, Bryan ; Datta, Sekharjit ; Harvey, Paul ; Vyas, Anoop ; Thakker, Bashkar ; Farooq, Omar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010

Firstpage

2208

Lastpage

2210

Abstract

This paper describes a practical development project to enable the monitoring of vital signs data obtained from patients located in remote rural locations. The data are gathered from a wireless network of sensors attached to a patient´s body and stored locally for secure transmission over existing communication infrastructures to a hospital server. Clinicians are then able to monitor the patient offline and upload diagnoses.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; body area networks; body sensor networks; computer networks; diseases; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; ECG; communication infrastructures; diabetes; heart disease; hospital server; mobile communications; remote rural locations; vital sign data monitoring; wireless body-area network; wireless sensor network; Communication system security; Hospitals; Monitoring; Sensors; Servers; Watermarking; Wireless sensor networks; Algorithms; Biosensing Techniques; Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Graphics; Computer Security; Diabetes Mellitus; Electrocardiography; Equipment Design; Heart Diseases; Humans; Monitoring, Physiologic; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Telemedicine; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Buenos Aires

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4123-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627117

Filename

5627117