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Mobihealth: Mobile Health Services Based on Body Area Networks

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Part of the book series: Topics in Biomedical Engineering ((ITBE))

In this chapter we describe the concept of MobiHealth and the approach developed during the MobiHealth project (MobiHealth, 2002). The concept was to bring together the technologies of Body Area Networks (BANs), wireless broadband communications and wearable medical devices to provide mobile healthcare services for patients and health professionals. These technologies enable remote patient care services such as management of chronic conditions and detection of health emergencies. Because the patient is free to move anywhere whilst wearing the MobiHealth BAN, patient mobility is maximised. The vision is that patients can enjoy enhanced freedom and quality of life through avoidance or reduction of hospital stays. For the health services it means that pressure on overstretched hospital services can be alleviated.

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  1. Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Val Jones (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

  2. University of Twente, 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Aart van Halteren (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science), Ing Widya (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science), Nikolai Dokovsky (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science), George Koprinkov (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) & Richard Bults (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

  3. Centre Universitaire D'Informatique, University of Geneva, Rue General-Dufour 24, CH-1211, Geneve 4, Switzerland

    Dimitri Konstantas

  4. Ericsson GmbH, Maximilianstrasse 36/RG, D-80539, Munich, Germany

    Rainer Herzog

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  1. Mobile Information and Network Technologies Research Centre (MINT), School of Computing and Information Systems, Kingston University, London, UK

    Robert S. H. Istepanian

  2. Idaho State University Biomedical Research Institute and the Institute of Rural Health, Pocatello, Idaho, USA

    Swamy Laxminarayan

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

    Constantinos S. Pattichis

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Jones, V. et al. (2006). Mobihealth: Mobile Health Services Based on Body Area Networks. In: Istepanian, R.S.H., Laxminarayan, S., Pattichis, C.S. (eds) M-Health. Topics in Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26559-7_16

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