Telemedicine Gets A Speed Boost From Modified Bluetooth
Monday, November 2, 2009 - 23:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers at the PSG College of Technology Peelamedu in Coimbatore, India have devised a dedicated, embedded system that uses the short-range Bluetooth wireless networking protocolto connect patient data to the network in order to make it available to healthcare providers. According to a paper in the forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, a telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data for assessment almost four times as fast as conventional Bluetooth and without the intermittent connectivity problems. read more