The concept of the project taken from Telemedicine.
It is a rapidly developing application of clinical
medicine where medical information is transferred
through interactive audiovisual media for the purpose
of consulting, and sometimes remote medical
procedures or examinations.
Telemedicine may be as simple as two health
professionals discussing a case over the telephone, or
as complex as using satellite technology and
videoconferencing equipment to conduct a real-time
consultation between medical specialists in two
different countries. Telemedicine generally refers to
the use of communications and information
technologies for the delivery of clinical care.
Care at a distance (also called in absentia care), is an
old practice which was often conducted via post. There
has been a long and successful history of in absentia
health care which, thanks to modern communication
technology, has evolved into what we know as modern
telemedicine.
In its early manifestations, African villagers
used smoke signals to warn people to stay away from
the village in case of serious disease. In the early
1900s, people living in remote areas in Australia used
two-way radios, powered by a dynamo driven by a set
of bicycle pedals, to communicate with the Royal
Flying Doctor Service of AustraliaAdvances in sensor technology, personal mobile devices, and wireless broadband communications are enabling the development of an integrated personal mobile health monitoring system that can provide patients with a useful tool to assess their own health and manage their personal health information anytime and anywhere. Personal mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobile phones, are becoming more powerful integrated information management tools and play a major role in many people's lives. Here I focus on designing a Mobile health-monitoring system for people who stay alone at home or suffering from Heart Disease. This system presents a complete unified and mobile platform based connectivity solution for unobtrusive health monitoring. Developing a hardware which will sense heart rate and temperature of a patient, using Bluetooth modem all information lively transmitted to smart phone, from smart phone all information transmitted to server using GPRS. At server the received data compared with the standard threshold minimum and maximum value. The normal range of heart rate is 60 to 135 and the temperature of the patient is said to be normal above 95^F and below 104^F. If at all the rate increases above 145 or decreases below 55,it may be fatal and if it crossed this threshold limit then SMS will be sent to the relative of patient and Doctors along with measured values. The build-in GPS further provides the position information of the monitored person. The remote server not only collects physiological measurements but also tracks the position of the monitored person in real time. For transmitting data from Smartphone to the server using GPRS, here we need to create a website on data will be continuously transmitted from Smartphone to the website and from website data will be downloaded continuously on the server. Thus the system helps in tracking down the patient without getting the patient into any sort of communication. Undue mishaps can be avoided within the golden hours after a patient is struck with a heart attack
