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Mobile Telemedicine: A Survey Study

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Telemedicine involves the use of advanced and reliable communication techniques to deliver biomedical signals over long distances. In such systems, biomedical information is transmitted using wireline or wireless communication systems. Mobile telemedicine is an improved form of telemedicine, in which advanced wireless communication systems are used to deliver the biomedical signals of patients at any place and any time. Mobile telemedicine employs advanced concepts and techniques from the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, biomedical engineering, and medicine to overcome the restrictions involved in conventional telemedicine and realize an improvement in the quality of service of medicine. In this paper, we study several mobile telemedicine systems, and it is important to gain a good understanding of mobile telemedicine systems because in the further, such systems are expected to become ubiquitous for the delivery of biomedical signals for medicine.

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The authors acknowledge the support of the Teacher Research Project of National Taiwan Ocean University 99b60201, National Taiwan Ocean University, Center for Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology, the grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan NSC 93-2218-e-019-024, and the valuable comments of the reviewers.

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Lin, CF. Mobile Telemedicine: A Survey Study. J Med Syst 36, 511–520 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9496-x

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