A telecardiology system design with real-time diagnosis and teleconsultation

Tele-cardiology is the practice of cardiology which utilizes telecommunications, and as such is a new alternate and cost-effective means of providing cardiac care. During the last few years there has been a constant increase in the incidence of cardiovascular chronic pathologies, mainly due to the aging of population. Tele-cardiology services enable patients suffering from these pathologies to communicate their clinical parameters (i.e. ECG) to specialists in order to receive a constant monitoring and quick support in case of an emergency. Tele-cardiology improves patients´ assistance and can reduce the number and duration of hospitalizations. Tele-cardiology has two common goals in this work - first one is to reduce the healthcare costs of chronically ill patients while providing them access to healthcare providers and maintaining their quality of life. Second goal is to support with network software which satisfies share of necessary data and information for diagnosis of cardiology and to support communication between doctors who locate different locations.