Remote monitoring of patients with mobile healthcare devices

Abstract

This paper describes a generic framework of a remote patient monitoring and treatment system as part of an e-Health system. The framework is composed of a set of mobile and wearable medical devices and a communication platform that assure real-time acquisition of medical data from patients placed in remote locations. The main contributions of the paper are: the modular and versatile design of the medical devices and the web-service based data transfer solution.