Actual portable devices as base for telemedicine and e-health: Research and case study application

Author

Lupu, Ciprian ; Cosmin-Constantin, Mihai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. Control & Syst.´ Eng., Univ. Politeh. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Present paper presents an application designed to help paramedics or other intervention personal to diagnose and monitor the state of victims in remote or difficult to access areas using Windows 8 tablet computers. The application is written in Visual C# and uses the latest programming technologies and security features. It will help measure the Glasgow Coma Scale, respiration, pulse, blood pressure of victims and pass on data to a remote centralized management system using wireless signals, such as wireless internet and Bluetooth.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; medical computing; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; portable computers; telemedicine; user interfaces; Bluetooth; blood pressure; centralized management system; e-health; glasgow coma scale measurement; paramedics; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; portable devices; programming technologies; respiration; security features; telemedicine; visual C; windows 8 tablet computers; wireless internet; wireless signals; Accuracy; Hardware; Kernel; Servers; communication; portable device; software implementation; telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Health and Bioengineering Conference (EHB), 2013

Conference_Location

Iasi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2372-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EHB.2013.6707257

Filename

6707257