Telecardiology System using internet and Picosatellite Connections

Lilia Aparicio Pico
Distrital University Francisco José de Caldas

Orlando Rodriguez Cuenca
Distrital University Francisco José de Caldas

Topic: Health communication on the internet
Track: Research
Type: Poster presentation

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Abstract
Background: We have designed an experiment to research the performance of the telecardiology system using internet and picosatellite connections for telemedicine, the principal interest is to bring medical services to isolated communities

Objective: The objective of this research is to evaluate the performance of a telecardiology system on internet and picosatellite networks.

Materials: A fully functional telecardiology system was used on internet and network simulation system.

Methods: the telecardiology system are composed by acquisition , compression and error control modules, we send compressed ecg data through internet to the ground station of the picosatellite network, later the data are sending to the satellite, they are received at the other ground station in remote place and transmit on internet to the hospital where there are medical specialist for analisys and diagnosis. Finally this communication process is used to return diagnosis data to source place where there is the patient.

Results: We send compressed data through internet later we uses data for simulitating satellite transmission using matlab communications tollbooks, as a result some doctors in Bogotá carried out observations to the results with ecg reconstructed in reception and they concluded that it is acceptable the ecg waveform for diagnosis.

Conclusions: Using internet and picosatellite networks will enable the develop of integrated networks in order to establishing the infrastructure with the capability to develop space activities for special purposes on medicine. it is possible to take ecg data of a patient from remote place for attending the principal necessities of medical services in the community.

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