A Cell Phone Based Health Monitoring System with Self Analysis Processor using Wireless Sensor Network Technology

This paper describes the integrated wireless CDMA-based ubiquitous healthcare monitoring system for disease and chronic management and better patient care in the hospital, home or travel environments with extended standalone simple electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis algorithm at cell phone. This system utilizes a wireless dongles prototype as the intermediary devices to remotely monitor the physiological signs of patient's from a tiny wireless sensor to transmit directly to medical center monitoring/PDA wirelessly within 802.15.4 wireless LAN or using cell phone to relay the medical data through CDMA network when outside the coverage LAN. The external standalone ECG diagnosis was implemented to enable continuous monitoring and evaluation of the ECG signal locally before any medical data could be sent to the medical center.