Telemedical data acquisition system for use in preventive medicine

The fast mobile acquisition and analysis of medical data offers new ways of an effective monitoring of studies on occupational health. By using modern transmission technologies, the presented proprietary development works completely wireless and thus offers the possibility of monitoring a subject's physiological parameters and its strain sense regardless of location. The system is based on a mobile device, which allows the communication to the sensor technology and hence forms a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). From here the measured data are sorted chronologically and transferred continuously to a communication server via WLAN or mobile radio standard, like GPRS and UNITS. The communication server archives the received data in a database. By means of a web-based medical information management system the management, processing and analysis of the acquired data can be done from any PC with Internet access. By using mobile radio standards the subject is not bound to a special location. Moreover, the usage of web-based management software enables the medical staff not only to monitor the measurement data independently of place but also to influence the physical examination, if indicated.