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Sensing of Vital Signs and Transmission Using Wireless Networks
Abstract
People living with chronic medical conditions, or with conditions requiring short term monitoring, need regular and individualized care to maintain their normal lifestyles. Mobile healthcare is a solution for providing patients’ mobility while their health is being monitored. Existing studies show that mobile healthcare can bring significant economic savings, improve the quality of care, and consequently the patient’s quality of life. However, despite all progresses in advanced information and telecommunication technologies, there are still very few functioning commercial wireless mobile monitoring devices present on the market, which most work off-line, are not proper for m-health services and there are still many issues to be dealt with. This chapter deals with a comprehensive investigation of feasibility of wireless and cellular telecommunication technologies and services in a real-time m-health system. The chapter bases its investigation, results, discussion and argumentation on an already developed remote patient monitoring system by the author. The implemented m-health system has been evaluated and validated by a number of well defined tests and experiments. The designed and implemented system fulfils the requirements. The suggested system is reliable, functions with a clinically acceptable performance, and transfers medical data with a reasonable quality, even though the system was tested under totally uncontrolled circumstances during the patients’ daily activities. Both the patients and the involved healthcare personnel expressed their confidence in using it. It is concluded that the system is applicable in clinical setup, and might be generalized in clinical practice. Finally, the chapter suggests improvement approaches for more reliable, more secure, more user-friendly and higher performance of an m-health system in future.
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