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Opportunistic Medical Monitoring Using Bluetooth P2P Networks
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Remote medical monitoring using body sensors and
wireless communications has been gaining attention recently
because of the potential savings in patient care and the equally
impressive enhancements of quality of care for mobile individuals.
What makes remote medical monitoring feasible are the advances
in the body sensor technology (non-intrusive sensors embedded
in actuators to monitor vital signs); and in wireless technology
(Body LAN, cellular andWireless LAN). Currently, most medical
vests and body LANs connect to the Internet in a point-topoint
fashion, via the cellular system (say SMS). With the
growing popularity of ubiquitous computing and opportunistic
P2P personal networks, it makes sense to explore beyond the
point to point health care paradigm and study new models for
remote patient care that exploit P2P networking among patients
and care providers (nurses, doctors, emergency personnel). In this
paper we identify several medical care applications based on P2P
Health Networking. We then focus on two specific scenarios with
nurses and patients both equipped with Bluetooth devices: a field
hospital where nurses opportunistically collect, share and upload
in P2P fashion patient medical records during bedside visits, and
a field trip situation with patients supervised by nurses, where a
patient emergency is promptly reported to the nearest nurse using
enhanced inquiry response Bluetooth techniques. Simulation and
testbed experiments show that Bluetooth P2P networking is both
feasible and cost-effective in remote medical monitoring.
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Paper: PDF file of paper
Slides: PPT file of slides
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To appear IEEE Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC), Newport Beach CA, June. 2008
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Dae-Ki Cho
SeungHoon Lee
Alexander Chang
Tammara Massey
Chia-Wei Chang
Min-Hsieh Tsai
Majid Sarrafzadeh
Mario Gerla
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