Autor(es):
Fernández-López, Helena 
; Afonso, José A. ; Correia, J.H. ; Simões, Ricardo
Data: 2012
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/11110/294
Origem: CiencIPCA
Assunto(s): eHealth; medical data transport; communication performance assessment; standardized tests; wireless biomedical monitoring
Descrição
Wireless medical systems are comprised of four stages, namely the medical device, the data transport, the data collection and the data evaluation stages. Whereas the performance of the first stage is highly regulated, the others are not. This paper concentrates on the data transport stage and argues that it is necessary to establish standardized tests to be used by medical device manufacturers to provide comparable results concerning the communication
performance of the wireless networks used to transport medical data. Besides, it
suggests test parameters and procedures to be used to produce comparable communication performance results. Authors would like to thank Mr. Teófilo Leite, Mr. Nélson Brito and Ms. Teresa Moura, from Hospital Privado de Guimarães, for the encouragement and support. This work has been supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Lisbon, through the 3º Quadro Comunitário de Apoio, the
POCTI and FEDER programs, the MIT-Portugal program, project PEst-C/CTM/LA0025/2011 (Strategic Project - LA 25 - 2011-2012), and the FCT grant SFRH/BD/39408/2007. AAL4ALL project, co-financed by the European Community Fund through COMPETE - Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade.
Clinical and financial support for this study has been provided by Grupo AMI – Assistência Médica Integral (Casa de Saúde Guimarães, SA), Portugal, under the partnership established between this healthcare company and the University of Minho. We also acknowledge useful discussions with staff from the Hospital de Braga.
