The use of mobile telephone networks and wireless internet technology for monitoring patients remotely

Communications technologies are now globally available, but it is not a simple matter to exploit them for applications in developing countries. The paper presents the basic ideas of transmitting a patient´s biomedical signals directly to a hospital using either a mobile telephone or the Internet. It is recognised that this is a technically advanced solution, requiring appropriate infrastructure, but with suitable training a paramedic should be able to supervise the transmission procedure.