Title :
Tele-medicine techniques for remote support of patients in dialysis and COPD
Author :
Görs, Matthias ; Marx, Roland ; Albert, Michael ; Schäfer, Markus ; Schilling, Klaus
Author_Institution :
Zentrum fur Telematik e.V., Gerbrunn, Germany
Abstract :
The progress of telematics (=Telecommunication + Automation + Informatics) methods promisesin tele-medicine applications increasing quality of treatment at reduced costs. At the two example cases of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and of Dialysis a related sensor equipment to characterize the health status, as well as equipment for continuous and safe data transmission are presented. Data processing at a tele-service center has to filter information,such that only the critical cases are confronted to the doctors. Challenges, system architecture and first experiences of this tele-medicine approach for remote monitoring of patients are reported.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; data communication; diseases; medical computing; medical information systems; patient monitoring; patient treatment; telemedicine; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; data processing; dialysis; filter information; patient treatment; related sensor equipment; remote monitoring; remote support; safe data transmission; system architecture; telematics methods; telemedicine techniques; teleservice center; Biomedical monitoring; Blood; Data communication; Diseases; Monitoring; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation, Communications, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME), 2011 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bandung
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1167-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICICI-BME.2011.6108583
