Emerging mobile communication technologies for health

Abstract

Rapid advances in mobile and network technologies in recent years have opened new opportunities for new and innovative means of healthcare delivery. Implementation of telemedicine system using mobile/ wireless technologies in the time to come will exploit the recent advances in mobile communication technologies. Brief overview of current mobile telecommunication technologies for health like 2.5G-, 3G, 4G, WiMAX, Wireless LAN, Wireless PAN including Bluetooth and ZigBee, Wireless BAN for medical sensors, mobile IP, and WAP based telemedicine systems is presented in this paper along with the limitations of the existing systems and the future challenges in m-Health systems. ©2010 IEEE.