Title: Patient monitoring using infrastructure-oriented wireless LANs

Authors: Upkar Varshney

Addresses: Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4015, USA

Abstract: There is considerable interest in using wireless and mobile technologies in patient monitoring in diverse environments including hospitals and nursing homes. However, there has not been much work in determining the requirements of patient monitoring and satisfying these requirements using infrastructure-oriented wireless networks. In this paper, we derive several requirements of patient monitoring and show how infrastructure-oriented wireless LANs, such as versions of IEEE 802.11, can be used to support patient monitoring in diverse environments.

Keywords: patient monitoring; infrastructure-oriented wireless LANs; IEEE 802.11; local area networks; wireless networks; mobile communications; e-healthcare; electronic healthcare; WLANs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2006.008829

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 2006 Vol.2 No.2, pp.149 - 163

Published online: 27 Jan 2006 *

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