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Healthcare IT

Taiwan to put wireless patient monitors in ambulances

By Adrienne Valdez | 31 August 2011

National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) and Taichung Hospital are working on an ambulance-mounted wireless sensor system to transmit patients’ vital signs to emergency wards while patients are being transported.

The system will allow emergency room doctors to get a real-time overview of patients’ condition prior to their arrival at the hospital.

According to NTUT Professor, Tan Tan-Hsu, “The wireless system can measure a patient’s pulse and blood oxygen levels and transmit electrocardiogram data, body temperatures and images of injuries to the hospital’s computer server.”

To complement the system is a compatible smartphone that can perform electrocardiogram test carried by emergency medical technicians.

The project is expected to be more valuable to remote areas such as mountain regions, islands, and distant villages, where valuable time can be saved once patients’ vital signs are transferred to a main hospital in real time.

The NTUT team is also cooperating with Mongolian University of Science and Technology to put the wireless system in use in Mongolia.

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