Title :
Current trends and future challenges in wireless telemedicine system
Author :
Devaraj, Sujitha Juliet ; Ezra, Kirubakaran
Author_Institution :
Karunya Univ., Coimbatore, India
Abstract :
With an increase in population, providing basic health care to the people, especially in rural areas is the main objective of health administrators. A remote telemedicine system is the possible way to solve this problem with the support of new advanced technologies. This paper discusses the state of the art and the major issues in wireless telemedicine systems such as secure transmission of data, patient monitoring and effective medical video compression. This paper will conclude by discussing future challenges of the domain.
Keywords :
data communication; data compression; health care; medical image processing; patient monitoring; security of data; telemedicine; video coding; health care; medical video compression; patient monitoring; remote telemedicine system; secure data transmission; wireless telemedicine system; Biomedical imaging; Image coding; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Telemedicine; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Patient Monitoring; Store and Forward; Telemedicine; Two-way Interactive Television;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT), 2011 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kanyakumari
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8678-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8679-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICECTECH.2011.5941933
