An article by the Telemedicine and e-Health Research Group at the University of Valladolid, which describes a system used to tele-monitor patients with chronic diseases and athletes, received the Best Paper Award at the 15th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2013), held in Lisbon.
The paper proposes constant monitoring of the vital signs of patients (blood pressure, pulse rate, breathing and others) through the use of shirts with wireless body sensors (WirelessBodySensors Networks, WBSN). Once the vital signs are obtained the data can be sent by 3G or WiFi to operations centers at hospitals or health services where the information will be processed.
The project was worked on by universities from Shanghai (China), Beira (Portugal) and Valladolid (Spain). It also involved members of the UVa Research team – who were in charge of the telematics aspect – which focuses on developing applications for mobile devices and all forms of terminal that do not need to be connected to a computer.
Source: Universidad de Valladolid
