A new telemedicine system for the home monitoring of lung function in patients with obstructive respiratory diseases

Proceedings - International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 117-122

  Gobbi, Alessandro ^a   Milesi, Ilaria ^a   Govoni, Leonardo ^a   Pedotti, Antonio ^a   Dellaca, Raffaele L ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asthma; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Forced oscillation technique; Home monitoring

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; CLINICAL TREATMENTS; DATA COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; DATA MANAGEMENTS; DATA TRANSMISSIONS; EARLY DETECTIONS; FORCED OSCILLATION TECHNIQUE; HIGH RELIABILITIES; HOME MONITORING; LUNG FUNCTIONS; PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS; REAL-TIME DATA PROCESSING; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TELEMEDICINE SYSTEMS; TRAINED STAFFS; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS; WEB-PORTALS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMMUNICATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; PULMONARY DISEASES; TELEMEDICINE;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 63849218083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eTELEMED.2009.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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