A portable telemedicine monitoring information system based on mobile internet networks

A portable telemedicine monitoring information system is proposed in this paper, which can be used for monitoring the patient´s medical or health conditions anytime and anywhere the mobile internet network exists. The system includes two main parts, the monitoring terminals and the doctor´s work station in a remote hospital. The monitoring terminals use a wireless transmitter and an ARM9 embedded microprocessor as its core controller, and acquire the important life physiological signals, e.g., the Blood Pressure, the 7-lead ECG, the PPG for Blood Oxygen, and the Respiration Rate, which are also transferred to the doctor´s work station via 3G network. The doctor´s work station realizes the real time monitoring for the remote terminals, stores and retrieves the patient´s records. Based on this system, the doctors can adopt medical measures in the first time. Experimental results showed that the system is feasible and effective.