Mobile Telemedicine Screening Complex

IFMBE Proceedings. Vol.41: XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2014
Zigurds Markovičs, Juris Lauznis, Gunārs Balodis, Aleksejs Kataševs, Ieva Markoviča

Public health is one of key priorities of any European Union country. It is necessary to do research work for development of new set of mobile, portable medical device complex for preventive examinations which could be effectively used by family doctors, at schools for children's health tests, sports medicine needs or even at work and at home. Team of authors in frames of ERDF supported project is working on development of new portable telemedicine preventive health care device complex. The new device complex will include equipment for testing vision, hearing, blood pressure, spirometry, pulse oximetry, digital thermometry, digital phonendoscopy, electrocardiogram, anthropometric measurements, urine and blood analysis and will include interactive diagnostic questionnaire. The system will consist of 2 parts – the mobile diagnostics part which takes examinations of patient and analysis center part with specialists which makes diagnosis based on those examinations. The new product will make preventive health diagnostic more accessible to wide range of potential patients. It will save time and costs associated with taking tests for preventive diagnostics.

Keywords
Telemedicine, mobile, screening, diagnostics, e-health.
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-00846-2_359
Hyperlink
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-00846-2_359

Markovičs, Z., Lauznis, J., Balodis, G., Kataševs, A., Markoviča, I. Mobile Telemedicine Screening Complex. In: IFMBE Proceedings. Vol.41: XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Spain, Seville, 25-28 September, 2013. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp.1451-1454. ISBN 978-3-319-00845-5. e-ISBN 978-3-319-00846-2. ISSN 1680-0737. Available from: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00846-2_359

Publication language
English (en)