A telehealth architecture for networked embedded systems: A case study in In Vivo health monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 351-359

  Dabiri, Foad ^a   Massey, Tammara ^a   Noshadi, Hyduke ^a   Hagopian, Hagop ^a   Lin, C K ^b   Tan, Robert ^b   Schmidt, Jacob ^b   Sarrafzadeh, Majid ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative technologies in health care delivery; Information science and technology; Teleconsultation; Telemedicine; Telesurgery

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBLE PACKAGING; COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; HEALTH MONITORING; HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; IN-VIVO; INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURE; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; POWER MANAGEMENTS; PRESSURE APPLICATIONS; PRESSURE READING; PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL TRANSMISSION; TELECONSULTATION; TELEHEALTH; TELESURGERY; UBIQUITOUS DATA COLLECTION; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

BIOMATERIAL;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SWINE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELEMEDICINE; URINARY TRACT;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TELEMEDICINE; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 67349265760     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2013248     Document Type: Article

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