Wireless Networks in Mobile Healthcare

With the advancement of telemedicine systems, health information can now be transferred as interactive video over wireless networks. The key features of a mobile wireless network based system are portability, long battery life, ease of use, full duplex support, and optional encrypted communication (Pattichis, 2002). Rapid advances in wireless and mobile communication technologies have led to new categories of services to support healthcare. Telemedicine can be used to deliver healthcare and medical information remotely using wired or wireless telecommunication technologies.

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