Patient-Oriented Web Telemedicine System for Health Monitoring

WBAN (wireless body area network) helps in monitoring vital signs of a patient and can monitor patient's history in routine life activities to provide them accurate diagnosis. Doctors can check the complete details of patients from remote location and can recommend a suitable medication. The main purpose of this technology is to reduce the load at hospitals and provide efficient healthcare facility remotely. To monitor the patients in their natural environments is not practical when devices or sensors are connected through a wire that is why we use WBAN to carrying out daily activities through unobtrusive and contented way. In these networks, various sensors are attached on clothing or on the body or even implanted under the skin. The wireless nature of the network and the wide variety of sensors offer numerous new, practical and innovative applications to improve health care and the quality of life. Using a WBAN, the patient experiences a greater physical mobility and is no longer compelled to stay in the hospital. This technology can provide very cheaper, easier and quick respondent history of patient. This paper discusses the architecture of WBAN, and its position between different technologies. The paper also introduces the web portal telemedicine solution, and the implementation of telemedicine monitoring system using WBAN.

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