August 06, 2008
India: Health: Innovative Ideas: Loughborough University takes mobile phone health monitoring to India
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Loughborough University engineers have forged a partnership with experts in India to develop their unique mobile phone health monitoring system.
The device, which was first unveiled in 2005, uses a mobile phone to transmit a person’s vital signs, including the complex electrocardiogram (ECG) heart signal, to a hospital or clinic anywhere in the world.
Created by Professor Bryan Woodward and Dr Fadlee Rasid from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the system enables a doctor to observe remotely up to four different medical signals from a freely moving patient. Signals that can be transmitted include the ECG, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and blood glucose level.
