Real time portable telemedicine system for cardiac patient

Available conventional methods of cardiac patient monitoring mostly perform offline analysis and restrict the mobility of the patients within a hospital or room. Even if an analysis is made, the results are recorded only on a server, where the doctor has to go and make the analysis and then initiate a treatment. This is patently time consuming. Hence, this work proposes a portable telemedicine system that monitors, performs real time analysis with the hand held device constructed using an ARM based microcontroller AT9263EJ-S. This handheld device acquires and analyses the ECG signals from the patient continuously. If the portable system detects any arrhythmia, it automatically sends an alarm condition to the patient´s care taker and physician on a mobile phone by sending an SMS. The system was tested successfully and success rate of getting the alerting SMS during peak network traffic time was also conducted.