A Wireless PDA-based Electrocardiogram Transmission System for Telemedicine

Author

Qiang, Zhu ; Mingshi, Wang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Beijing Jiaotong Univ.

fYear

2006

Firstpage

3807

Lastpage

3809

Abstract

A wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) transmission system is developed which integrates current personal digital assistant (PDA) technology and general packet radio service (GPRS) technology. This PDA-based system is comprised of a designed ECG signal acquisition module, a pocket PC (Legend 5100) and a GPRS communication module. The specific objective of this system is to facilitate accurate and reliable monitoring and transmission of patient´s ECG signal. This system is able to acquire ECG signals, display the ECG waveform on the LCD screen of the PDA and wirelessly transmit them to an authorized remote medical ECG management server. The transmission function of this system is tested and the results show that this system is able to accurate and reliable transmit the ECG signal

Keywords

electrocardiography; notebook computers; packet radio networks; telemedicine; ECG; ECG signal acquisition module; GPRS; general packet radio service technology; medical ECG management server; personal digital assistant; pocket PC; telemedicine; wireless PDA-based electrocardiogram transmission system; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Ground penetrating radar; Liquid crystal displays; Packet radio networks; Patient monitoring; Personal digital assistants; Remote monitoring; Signal design; Telemedicine; general packet radio service (GPRS); personal digital assistant (PDA); wireless transmission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617314

Filename

1617314