Describes a modular Bluetooth telemedicine processor for transmitting patient biomedical signals to hospitals via mobile networks.
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Early feasibility of Bluetooth biomedical signal transmission shown; leaves open larger clinical validation trials.
One of the emerging issues in m-Health is how best to exploit the mobile communications technologies that are now almost globally available. The challenge is to produce a system to transmit a patient's biomedical signals directly to a hospital for monitoring or diagnosis, using an unmodified mobile telephone. The paper focuses on the design of a processor, which samples signals from sensors on the patient. It then transmits digital data over a Bluetooth link to a mobile telephone that uses the General Packet Radio Service. The modular design adopted is intended to provide a "future-proofed" system, whose functionality may be upgraded by modifying the software.
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