Abstract:
Remote medical monitoring and consultation has become indispensable in order to
enhance the availability of better health-care services to the patients in remote rural areas
in the country. This paper proposes an inexpensive, easy to handle Remote Medical
Consultation System (RMCS) which supports the healthcare workers to carry out their
services through bi-directional video and voice communication between the remote end
and doctor’s end as well as automated measuring of medical parameters that can be
controlled from both ends. RMCS is consisted of a wearable sensors kit, a centralized
hardware platform which connects to the medical sensors and devices and a software
platform with database for operating and managing the system. RMCS is capable of
remotely measuring patient’s blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature,
electrocardiogram (ECG), heart sounds and the system’s platform supports to add-on
more medical sensors or devices. The key aspect of the system is that it reduces most of
the complexity in operation and facilitates the doctors to monitor and diagnose the
patients in real-time. RMCS was essentially developed to eliminate the issues of low
quality healthcare services in rural areas and to assist in monitoring immobilized patients.
