Heart sound and electrocardiogram recording devices for telemedicine environments

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4867-4870

  Koekemoer, H L ^a   Scheffer, C ^b  

^a GeoAxon Holdings (Ply) Ltd   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; TELEMEDICINE;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAM RECORDINGS; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; HEART SOUNDS; HOME HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL PRACTITIONER; MULTIPLE SENSORS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RURAL AFRICA;

DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMEDICINE; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART AUSCULTATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMEDICINE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 61849131151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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