A portable ECG monitoring device with Bluetooth and Holter capabilities for telemedicine applications

Author

Lucani, Daniel ; Cataldo, Giancarlos ; Cruz, Julio ; Villegas, Guillermo ; Wong, Sara

Author_Institution

Grupo de Bioingenieria, Simon Bolivar Univ., Caracas

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

5244

Lastpage

5247

Abstract

A prototype of a portable ECG-monitoring device has been developed for clinical and non-clinical environments as part of a telemedicine system to provide remote and continuous surveillance of patients. The device can acquire, store and/or transmit ECG signals to computer-based platforms or specially configured access points (AP) with Intranet/Internet capabilities in order to reach remote monitoring stations. Acquired data can be stored in a flash memory card in FAT16 format for later recovery, or transmitted via Bluetooth or USB to a local station or AP. This data acquisition module (DAM) operates in two modes: Holter and on-line transmission

Keywords

Bluetooth; Internet; electrocardiography; flash memories; intranets; patient monitoring; telemedicine; Bluetooth; ECG monitoring device; ECG signal transmission; FAT16 format; Holter recording; Internet; USB; access points; computer-based platform; data acquisition module; flash memory card; intranet; remote monitoring station; telemedicine; Application software; Bluetooth; Electrocardiography; Flash memory; Internet; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Remote monitoring; Surveillance; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260798

Filename

4462987