Wireless bioinstruments for telecare

Although telemedicine or telehealth can potentially affect all medical specialties, the greatest current applications are found in radiology, pathology, cardiology and medical education. This paper is arranged in such a manner as to follow a patient's cardiac signal from its initial detection by the ECG amplifier, its progression through the various subsystems of figure below, and ultimately culminating in its final wireless transmission to a PC for patient who is receiving rehabilitation care at home, and then connects to an IP-based wireless WAN for medical-data transmission. Also this paper discusses a telemedicine market for homecare in the world generally and especially developing nations (Arab countries, Africa and other regions). The main advantage of the system is to provide an ECG transmitter, with which the patient can transmit ECG data 24 hours a day, and to be a part of homecare service center for telehomecare provided by nurses, and another wireless circuit used by nurses for consultation with physicians in the event that an anomaly is found in the patient. The proposal project is of vital importance to our country (Iraq) and surrounding Arab countries as it will help raise the standard of the health profession education. It should promote sharing medical consultation in the field of cardiology between medical centers in different governorates inside the country, and also between centers of other countries.