ECG Signal Acquisition System for Remote Healthcare Service With Telemetric Capability

Abstract

Many of the tasks of daily life of human beings became easier with the advent of information communication technology. Complex tasks are becoming simpler with the application of this technology which ensures to meet the challenges with never-ending innovations. However its application in the field of healthcare is still lagging and geared up only in the last decade. In the field of healthcare service information communication technology has tremendous potential in bio-telemetry which is commonly termed as Telehealth or Telemedicine. Telemedicine makes the task easier for remote healthcare service where diagnosis of patients can be performed from remote places. As example, most of the rural areas are lacking of good physicians and healthcare services, and may be monitored by city hospitals through telemedicine. Hence healthcare community requires suitable low cost, low power yet affordable and sustainable gadgets compatible to biomedical signals. In this paper a development effort is presented to acquire ECG signal that is processed and transmitted over communication channel.

Keywords: Telehealth, Telemedicine, Information Communication Technology, Remote healthcare, Electrocardiogram, Biopentential