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01-04-2012 | Original Paper

Mobile Telemedicine: A Survey Study

Author: Chin-Feng Lin

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 2/2012

Abstract

Telemedicine involves the use of advanced and reliable communication techniques to deliver biomedical signals over long distances. In such systems, biomedical information is transmitted using wireline or wireless communication systems. Mobile telemedicine is an improved form of telemedicine, in which advanced wireless communication systems are used to deliver the biomedical signals of patients at any place and any time. Mobile telemedicine employs advanced concepts and techniques from the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, biomedical engineering, and medicine to overcome the restrictions involved in conventional telemedicine and realize an improvement in the quality of service of medicine. In this paper, we study several mobile telemedicine systems, and it is important to gain a good understanding of mobile telemedicine systems because in the further, such systems are expected to become ubiquitous for the delivery of biomedical signals for medicine.

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Title: Mobile Telemedicine: A Survey Study
Author: Chin-Feng Lin
Publication date: 01-04-2012
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 2/2012
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9496-x

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