Real time portable telemedicine system for cardiac patient

Available conventional methods of cardiac patient monitoring mostly perform offline analysis and restrict the mobility of the patients within a hospital or room. Even if an analysis is made, the results are recorded only on a server, where the doctor has to go and make the analysis and then initiate a treatment. This is patently time consuming. Hence, this work proposes a portable telemedicine system that monitors, performs real time analysis with the hand held device constructed using an ARM based microcontroller AT9263EJ-S. This handheld device acquires and analyses the ECG signals from the patient continuously. If the portable system detects any arrhythmia, it automatically sends an alarm condition to the patient's care taker and physician on a mobile phone by sending an SMS. The system was tested successfully and success rate of getting the alerting SMS during peak network traffic time was also conducted.