Title :
WiMAX Network for Health Care Telemonitoring Service
Author :
Yen, Yun-Sheng ; Chiang, Wen-Chen ; Wang, Hsiang-Yu ; Shiah, Chwan-Yi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Inf., Guang Univ., Ilan, Taiwan
Abstract :
The inconvenience of transportation frequently causes delay in health care for home-dwelling patients with chronic diseases, resulting in inequality of medical care. This paper proposes a Telemonitoring System (WiMAX Telemonitoring Service) framework for monitoring and delivering health care service to home-dwelling chronic hypertension patients, with the idea of improving the accessibility of medical care by utilizing the benefits of Internet to construct a ubiquitous health care environment. The study compared and analyzed three wireless Networks: WiMAX, WiFi and HSDPA, and found that WiMAX has the best performance regarding to stability as a long-distance health care delivery platform. A questionnaire survey in the hospital also revealed that the medical staff are highly recognized with telemedicine, which supports and serves as a reference for the designing of the telemonitoring system.
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; Internet; WiMax; access protocols; condition monitoring; health care; radio networks; telecommunication services; telemedicine; wireless LAN; HSDPA; Internet; WiFi; WiMax network; health care telemonitoring service; home-dwelling chronic hypertension patient; medical staff; telemedicine; ubiquitous health care environment; wireless networks; Biomedical monitoring; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Jitter; Medical services; Multiaccess communication; Spread spectrum communication; WiMAX;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jeju Island
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9222-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9223-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICISA.2011.5772362
