The research mHealth platform for ECG monitoring

Nowadays, mobile terminal applications rapidly transform the meaning and context of health care services around the globe. Continuous monitoring of physical parameters is very important for improvement of the patient's life quality. Detection of ECG RR interval and QRS complex is crucial for diagnosis of heart diseases. In this paper, we present Bluetooth ECG Sensor Emulator in Matlab. We have tested the computation performances of mobile phones for monitoring and analysis of ECG signals. Three different peak detection algorithms were implemented using Java ME. MIT-BIH Arrythmia database signals were used for testing. Experimental results are discussed in order to determine their applicability to the real-time ECG telemonitoring.

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