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Moebius explored the possibilities of mobile networks in the field of tele medicine. Various international organizations, such as UHB, NTUA, UA, Siemens, Bull, or Telit, were contributors to the project. The goal was to developed a secure platform which enables access to medical patient data to authorized medical personnel, for example for surveillance purposes in cases of diabetes, any other long term treatment or recovery from illness. The collection of the data is performed by the patient himself using various medical sensors, such as blood pressure, coagulation, or glucose measurement devices, which are standard products available on the market from vendors such as Roche or NAIS. The data collected with those devices can be uploaded to the main database using wireless technologies with PDAs like Compaq iPaqs, or Siemens Webpads. The transmission is performed using IPsec/IPv6 over GPRS, GSM or 802.11bNetworks.
futureLab AG was responsible for the healthcare application and platform, to develop a standalone Java application that runs on the PDAs the patients used on all platforms supporting Java and serial communication. It enabled both communication with the various medical sensors over a serial port, and the wireless communication with the database over a GSM, GPRS or 802.11 PCMCIA Card at the same time. It downloads the stored data from the devices, generates an XML representation, and transmits that data over a secure connection to the Moebius database, where both the patient and the physician have access to the data via a Web interface.
The application had an open design allowing newer sensors to be included at a later stage with little effort. Check out
http://www.ist-moebius.netfor more information.
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