Use of mobile communications for telemonitoring medicine

system.The Romania’s potential and

perspective

Puscoci S. National Communications Institute, Serbanescu F. QuickWebInfo

Bucharest, Romania Tromso Presentation 2004

Romania’s potential

• Development of the information technologies

• Development of the digital communication technologies

• Development of the mobile communication technologies, during the last seven years

Romania’s potential Mobile communications

• Two type technologies: GPRS/GSM şi CDMA• Four companies:

three for GSM technology: CONNEX and ORANGE 900MHz COSMOROM 1800MHz

one for CDMA technologyZAPP

Romania’s potential Mobile communications

• Dynamics of mobile subscriber

7,650,0004,837,0002,833,0001,350,000600,000250,000TOTAL

380,000300,000200,0000001800CosmoRom

3,400,0002,020,0001,400,000685,000300,000130,000900Orange

3,672,0002,460,0001,200,000650,000300,000120,000900Connex

200,00057,00033,00015,000n.a.n.a.450Zapp

200320022000199919981997

Number of subscribersType

Name of operator

Romania’s potential Mobile communications

Coverage at national level

Telemonitoring medicine system

Project developed within National Research Program INFOSOC- Informational Society

Period: Nov. 2003 – Aug. 2005

Telemonitoring medicine system Structure

• Mobile Telemonitoring Units – MTmU• Central Telemonitoring Units - CTmU• Data transfer network

Telemonitoring medicine system MTmU

MDITM

LDPALM

MCIGPRSCDMA

MTmU

MDI : Medical Devices Interface

TM : Tampon Memory,LDP : Local Data ProccessingALM : Alarms MCIGPRS : Mobile communication Interface CDMA

Interface for medical devicesAcquisition of medical data, from patientLocal processing of medical dataTransfer of medical data, to CTmU together with patient identification Send alarms for urgent situations

Telemonitoring medicine system CTmU

Interface for mobile networksInterface for Internet Receives monitoring patient data Interface to Processing System of patient data: statistics, graphicsReceives alarms for urgent situationsLink to another Telemedicine Centers

MCIGPRS : Mobile Communication Interface CDMA

Int.I : Internet Interface

TM : Tampon Memoriy ALM : Alarms

PDSI : Processing Data System Interface

PDSITMALM

MCIGPRSCDMA

CTmU

Int.I

Mobile Communication Network:

GPSR / GSM

CDMA

INTERNET

Telemonitoring medicine system Data transfer network

GPRS / CDMA

ISPServer Cache

INTERNET

GPRS / CDMA

Telemonitoring medicine system Telemonitoring Medical Area

components

Hospital, with Telemonitoring Department,

Telemedicine Center Family Doctor Medical Area Data

Base

Telemonitoring medicine system Architecture

Telemonitoring Medical Area

Telemonitoring medicine systembenefits

• Degease of the costs :Decease hospitalisation costs, for post-surgical

or cronic diseases that need a long-term surveillance

Use of public mobile communication networksReduce implementation costs by using of

medical standard equipmentsDecreas exploatation costs by redusing the

connection durations

Telemonitoring medicine systembenefits

Connection between MTmU and CTmU on demand, only, for:

Transfer of patient data, 3-4 times per day to transmit medical data, provided by an MTmU, plased on pacient home, to CTmU

Send alarms, in urgent situations

Temporary storage, into MTmU, and local processing medical data, to detect alarm situations

Telemonitoring medicine systembenefits

• Increase accesibility to medical act, because through a telemedicine network, the patient could be, virtually, transferred to any telemonitoring medical area.

Telemonitoring medicine system

Thank you for your attention !

Contact:

Sorin PUSCOCI :

sorp@k.ro

Florin SERBANESCU florin@quickweb.ro

Project WEBSITE

http://telemonitorizare.quickweb.ro