TITLE:
Design and Development of a Two Channel Telemedicine System for Rural Healthcare
AUTHORS:
Mitrra Potheri Ramesh, Shruthi Balasubramanian, Varsha Vijayan, Geethanjali Balasubramanian, Mahesh Veezhinathan
KEYWORDS:
Telemedicine; ECG; LabVIEW; Web Publishing Tool; Shared Variables
JOURNAL NAME:
Engineering,
Vol.5 No.10B,
May
22,
2014
ABSTRACT: In this work, an attempt has been made to design an Electro Cardio Gram
(ECG) and Photo Plethysmo Gram (PPG) based telemedicine system for rural health
care. In India as per the survey
conducted by Indian Medical Society in the year 2009, it has been revealed that
only 2% of the qualified doctors practice in rural areas. Also, according
to the statistics taken by the World Health Organization, every year an
estimated 17 million people die of various cardio vascular diseases. This paper introduces the transmission of
ECG and PULSE from remote areas to the specialists’ office. The ECG and PPG signals
are acquired, digitized and processed using LabVIEW for detection of heart and
pulse rate. These data are transmitted using two methods namely Web publishing
tool and Shared Variables. The results confirm the transfer of data with less
than millisecond delay.