Development of a portable telemedicine tool for remote diagnosis of telemedicine application

Abstract

At present telemedicine is widely used in developing countries for its variety of health services. In this paper, we have developed a low cost portable telemedicine tool kit for remote diagnosis of patients. Remote patient monitoring is one of the vital component of any telemedicine services. We have successfully able to collect patient data from any remote locations by using our developed tool kit. In this research, we have collected seven vital signs of patient's data such as blood pressure, pulse and oxygen in blood, blood glucose level, patient position and falls, body temperature, electrical and muscular functions of the heart through ECG and airflow: breathing through our device in an automated manner. Our developed device is portable and can be used easily with any telemedicine model. In this study, we have developed an android app for collecting the patient data from our device, controlling the device and sending data to the server for telemedicine application. We have made simple user interface of app for better understandability of users. Finally, we can say that our developed portable telemedicine tool kit can be an useful and integrated component of any telemedicine model which will assist the researchers for their applications.