MobiHealth: ambulant patient monitoring over next generation public wireless networks

Open Webpage

Aart Van Halteren, Dimitri Konstantas, Richard Bults, Katarzyna Wac, Nicolai Dokovsky, George Koprinkov, Val Jones, Ing Widya

Published: 01 Jan 2004, Last Modified: 10 Nov 2025Studies in health technology and informaticsEveryoneRevisionsCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: The wide availability of high bandwidth public wireless networks as well as the miniaturisation of medical sensors and network access hardware allows the development of advanced ambulant patient monitoring systems. The MobiHealth project developed a complete system and service that allows the continuous monitoring of vital signals and their transmission to the health care institutes in real time using GPRS and UMTS networks. The MobiHealth system is based on the concept of a Body Area Network (BAN) allowing high personalization of the monitored signals and thus adaptation to different classes of patients. The system and service has been trialed in four European countries and for different patient cases. First results confirm the usefulness of the system and the advantages it offers to patients and medical personnel.