A portable telemedicine monitoring information system based on mobile internet networks

A portable telemedicine monitoring information system is proposed in this paper, which can be used for monitoring the patient's medical or health conditions anytime and anywhere the mobile internet network exists. The system includes two main parts, the monitoring terminals and the doctor's work station in a remote hospital. The monitoring terminals use a wireless transmitter and an ARM9 embedded microprocessor as its core controller, and acquire the important life physiological signals, e.g., the Blood Pressure, the 7-lead ECG, the PPG for Blood Oxygen, and the Respiration Rate, which are also transferred to the doctor's work station via 3G network. The doctor's work station realizes the real time monitoring for the remote terminals, stores and retrieves the patient's records. Based on this system, the doctors can adopt medical measures in the first time. Experimental results showed that the system is feasible and effective.