On the feasibility of the usage of WAP devices in telemedicine

Author

Hung, Kevin ; Zhang, Y.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

31

Abstract

Telemedicine applications using cellular phones and the Internet have already been demonstrated. A recognizable trend in telecommunication is the convergence of cellular phone and computer network technologies. A WAP (wireless application protocol) phone is capable of not only voice and data transmission, but also wireless Internet connectivity. The paper discusses the methods and feasibility of several WAP-based telemedicine applications. A system consisting of a WAP device and a WAP server has been developed in our laboratory. It has been tested with emulation software before tests with an actual WAP phone. The future prospect of WAP devices in telemedicine is discussed

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; integrated voice/data communication; medical computing; telemedicine; WAP device; WAP phone; WAP server; cellular phone; computer network; data transmission; emulation software; telemedicine; voice transmission; wireless Internet connectivity; Application software; Cellular phones; Computer networks; Data communication; Internet; Network servers; Software testing; Telemedicine; Web server; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE EMBS International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6449-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2000.892343

Filename

892343