Key result
CardioSmart telecardiology system proves viable for continuous patient monitoring and transnational remote attendance.
Why the study?
A European telecardiology system using GPRS/GSM was developed to enable continuous remote monitoring and medical supervision of patients.
The CardioSmart system demonstrates the technical feasibility of using GPRS/GSM and advanced signal processing for continuous remote cardiac monitoring.
Supports feasibility of transnational telecardiology; hypothesis-generating and requires outcome trials before practice change.
This paper presents a Medicine/Engineering multidisciplinary research project, in which a European Telecardiology system has been developed for the continuing monitoring of patients using GPRS/GSM. The system consists in a portable terminal and a call center that provide 24h-duty medical supervision and assistance. The system includes advanced signal processing for the recognition of cardiac pathologies using neural networks, compression with wavelets, encryption and GPS to locate the patient in case of fading. The main requirements for this project have been its technical and economical viability and the user's acceptance of the system. The results obtained validate the system, showing its transnational supervision and remote attendance capability. The main achievements generate ambient intelligence and can be easily applied to other telemedical fields. This research project has been partially funded by the European Union under the VFP Information Society Technologies programme (IST-2001-35073)
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Quero et al. (2005) studied cardiac pathologies. CardioSmart Telecardiology system was evaluated. The CardioSmart telecardiology system, utilizing GPRS/GSM for continuous patient monitoring, was validated for transnational supervision and remote attendance.
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