The design and implementation of a virtual medical centre for patient home care

Author

Liu, Y.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

1163

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a Virtual Medical Centre (VMC) for home care. The system is initially intended for providing telematic home monitoring of asthma and heart patients cared for at their homes and community. The modular form of the design allows the system to be modified for other applications. The communication infrastructure of the system is based on the existing phone lines and PSTN. The interface is through personal instrument and DECT technology that offer high degree of automation and mobility

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; health care; medical expert systems; patient care; patient monitoring; telemedicine; DECT technology; PSTN; asthma patients; communication infrastructure; heart patients; high degree of automation; intelligent computerised clinical service; modular design; patient home care; telematic home monitoring; telemedicine; telemetry; virtual medical centre; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Decision making; Hospitals; Instruments; Medical services; Medical treatment; Patient monitoring; Telematics; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.747077

Filename

747077