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1.1 Necessity

According to the World Health Organization, Heart disease or cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are
the number one cause of death worldwide. Of these deaths, 82% take place in low- and middle-
income countries. With heart diseases, and associated complications, being one
of the major causes of death around the world, and in spite of decreased mortality rate, detection
of irregularities in the rhythms of the heart is a growing field in medical research. The India
comes into the same category. Thus modern visionary of healthcare industry is to provide better
healthcare to people anytime and anywhere in the world in a more economic and patient friendly
manner.
We are going to make a project Paperless Tele-monitoring System for Patients using Smart
Phone for big clinical organizations. Patient tele-monitoring is remotely monitoring the vital
parameters of patient and providing them to the doctors treatment in emergency. Advances in
mobile phone technology have resulted in global availability of portable computing devices
capable of performing many of the functions traditionally requiring desktop and larger
computers. In addition to their technological features, mobile phones have a large cultural
impact. They are user-friendly and are among the most efficient and most widely used means of
communication.
This paper presents a development platform for real time analysis of transmission of ECG
signals which can be used by a doctor to give primary treatment to the patient, using android
based mobile phone. This paper briefly discusses an ECG data transmission unit, with a web
server having database for storing ECG data of patients.




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1.2 Objective

1. Our aim is transmit Electrocardiogram, Heart rate, Blood pressure and Temperature of a patient
obtained by Operator or Nurse in the ambulance, and then to provide dynamic web page in real
time to view by an authorized doctor, an alert message is generated by the system. Finally
alerts will be given in two ways, firstly on the doctors mobile about the vital signs of the
patient using Android application and secondly alert given by an email notification.
2. An authenticated doctor will send feedback to the patient which will be implemented by a
nurse with the patient as an emergency treatment. A doctor can also have a talk with the nurse
as doctor has a Smartphone with him.
3. The next task of our project is to maintain a database at which all data of patients have to be
stored. Thus there will be a database at server.


















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1.3 Features of the project

1. Live ECG transmission of a patient for taking necessary treatments, to a doctor who is at any
place is the key feature of our project.
2. Our project has the characteristics hardware interoperability, versatility, and usability as an
Android OS is used to create ECG application.
3. To treat a patient using Smartphone is very simple, user friendly, fast accessing task for a doctor
leads to high performance, which is very important for doctors point of view.
4. If any complication rose to handle the case, a doctor can take advice from other authenticated
doctor who can also check the same patients ECG at a same time.
5. If a patient has stroke or chronic medical emergency more than once, then doctors can study the
current reports and previous reports in history which are stored in the database.
6. Paperless.. the name itself have an echo-friendly feature in the project. As the necessary reports
of a patient from his first admittance are stored in database there is no need to carry a file of
report. Also at any location or any city a patient need not have to carry his reports. This is
comfortable to the patients.
7. As there is a registration for accessing the database which is under the rules of administrator our
project have high level Security.
8. The authenticated doctor present at hospital and having no Smart phone can also access the
database, as there is a website at web server which allows doctor to login and check the ECG
using 3G Internet ,Wi-Fi, Broadband etc. internet facilities.
9. Our project will have to pass through all the satisfactory levels of diagnosis and get the
appropriate feedback as per diagnosis.







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1.4 Theme

1. If a patient has stroke or chronic medical emergency more than once, then doctors can study
the current reports and previous reports in history which are stored in the database.
2. Paperless.. the name itself have an echo-friendly feature in the project. As the necessary
reports of a patient from his first admittance are stored in database there is no need to carry a file
of report. Also at any location or any city a patient need not have to carry his reports. This is
comfortable to the patients.
3. The authenticated doctor present at hospital and having no Smart phone can also access the
database, as there is a website at web server which allows doctor to login and check the ECG
using 3G Internet ,Wi-Fi, Broadband etc. internet facilities.
4. Our project will have to pass through all the satisfactory levels of diagnosis and get the
appropriate feedback as per diagnosis.