Paper Info
Title
Implementation of a WAP-based telemedicine system for patient monitoring.
Abstract
Many parties have already demonstrated telemedicine applications that use cellular phones and the Internet. A current trend in telecommunication is the convergence of wireless communication and computer network technologies, and the emergence of wireless application protocol (WAP) devices is an example. Since WAP will also be a common feature found in future mobile communication devices, it is worthwhile to investigate its use in telemedicine. This paper describes the implementation and experiences with a WAP-based telemedicine system for patient-monitoring that has been developed in our laboratory. It utilizes WAP devices as mobile access terminals for general inquiry and patient-monitoring services. Authorized users can browse the patients' general data, monitored blood pressure (BP), and electrocardiogram (ECG) on WAP devices in store-and-forward mode. The applications, written in wireless markup language (WML), WMLScript, and Perl, resided in a content server. A MySQL relational database system was set up to store the BP readings, ECG data, patient records, clinic and hospital information, and doctors' appointments with patients. A wireless ECG subsystem was built for recording ambulatory ECG in an indoor environment and for storing ECG data into the database. For testing, a WAP phone compliant with WAP 1.1 was used at GSM 1800 MHz by circuit-switched data (CSD) to connect to the content server through a WAP gateway, which was provided by a mobile phone service provider in Hong Kong. Data were successfully retrieved from the database and displayed on the WAP phone. The system shows how WAP can be feasible in remote patient-monitoring and patient data retrieval.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/TITB.2003.811870
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
wap phone,electrocardiography,relational databases,mobile handsets,wap-based telemedicine system,general data,mysql relational database system,blood pressure measurement,ambulatory ecg,mobile phone service provider,telemedicine,common gateway interface,storing ecg data,patient monitoring,wireless communication,ecg data,patient data retrieval,content server,mobile access terminals,wap gateway,circuit-switched data,remote patient-monitoring,monitored blood pressure,electrocardiogram,wap device,wap phone compliant,software design,remote patient monitoring,blood pressure,information retrieval,data retrieval,computer network,circuit switched,mobile communication,service provider,wireless markup language,wireless application protocol,feasibility studies,internet,relational database system,application software
Telemedicine,Data science,Common Gateway Interface,GSM,World Wide Web,Computer science,Mobile phone,Wireless Application Protocol,Multimedia,Mobile telephony,Wireless Markup Language,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
2
1089-7771
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
82
14.55
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin Hung19617.33
Yuan-Ting Zhang216027.01