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. 2014:2014:380787.
doi: 10.1155/2014/380787. Epub 2014 May 6.

A wireless emergency telemedicine system for patients monitoring and diagnosis

M Abo-Zahhad  1 , Sabah M Ahmed  1 , O Elnahas  1
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A wireless emergency telemedicine system for patients monitoring and diagnosis

M Abo-Zahhad et al. Int J Telemed Appl. 2014.

Abstract

Recently, remote healthcare systems have received increasing attention in the last decade, explaining why intelligent systems with physiology signal monitoring for e-health care are an emerging area of development. Therefore, this study adopts a system which includes continuous collection and evaluation of multiple vital signs, long-term healthcare, and a cellular connection to a medical center in emergency case and it transfers all acquired raw data by the internet in normal case. The proposed system can continuously acquire four different physiological signs, for example, ECG, SpO2, temperature, and blood pressure and further relayed them to an intelligent data analysis scheme to diagnose abnormal pulses for exploring potential chronic diseases. The proposed system also has a friendly web-based interface for medical staff to observe immediate pulse signals for remote treatment. Once abnormal event happened or the request to real-time display vital signs is confirmed, all physiological signs will be immediately transmitted to remote medical server through both cellular networks and internet. Also data can be transmitted to a family member's mobile phone or doctor's phone through GPRS. A prototype of such system has been successfully developed and implemented, which will offer high standard of healthcare with a major reduction in cost for our society.

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Figure 1
Main components of telemedicine system.
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Figure 2
The architecture of the proposed system.
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Mobile-care unit.
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Block diagram of ECG acquisition hardware.
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Figure 5
(a) Temperature sensor. (b) Signal conditioning circuit.
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SpO2/HR sensor.
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Architecture of microcontroller.
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Figure 8
Functions of MCU.
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Figure 9
Work flow about mobile-care unit.
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Figure 10
(a) ENC28J60 Ethernet module and (b) Sim900 GSM/GPRS module.
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Figure 11
Screen shot of the developed interface main page.
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Figure 12
Add new patient screen shot.
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Figure 13
Displaying patient's vital signs.
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Figure 14
User authentication page.
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Figure 15
Displaying patient's vital signs.
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Figure 16
Screen shot for how to search.
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