continuous telemetric ecg monitoring

continuous telemetric ecg monitoring     soltanzadeh l 1 , taheria 2 , reabiee m 3 *     received: 29 may , 2013 accepted: 9 aug , 2013     abstract   background & aims : diabetes mellitus is becoming a major public health problem. telecare can improve the quality of diabetes care by altering the caring environment and care delivery process.   the electrocardiogram (ecg) is the recording of the electrical property of the heartbeats, and has become one of the most important tools in the diagnosis of heart diseases in diabetic patients. due to the high mortality rate of heart diseases in diabetic patients, early detection and precise discrimination of ecg arrhythmia is essential for the treatment of patients. the study tries to investigate tele diabetes care.   materials & methods : the study was carried out by using the key words of diabetes, telecare, telehealth, telemonitoring, ecg signal, heart diseases as well as the electronic databases of cinahl science direct, ovid, scopus, and sid, magiran, pubmed, and google scholar. this study has been carried out in 13 years period from 2000 to 2013.   results: the electrocardiogram (ecg) is the recording of the electrical property of the heartbeats, and has become one of the most important tools in the diagnosis of heart diseases. due to the high mortality rate of heart diseases, early detection and precise discrimination of ecg arrhythmia is essential for the treatment of patients . the results of this study show that telecare solutions for diabetes care are feasible and acceptable , and it can improv e other aspects of diabetes management . c continuous ecg monitoring also can improve care delivery process.   conclusion: designing and implementing of automated & portable system to receive, store, interpret, and alert relevant information signals for diagnosis of patients with diabetes was investigated.   key words : diabetes, telecare, telehealth, telemonitoring, ecg signal, heart diseases     address : department of biomedical eng, amirkabir university of technology, 424 hafez ave, tehran, 15875-4413   tel: (+98) 21645424 81   email : [email protected]   1 msc in biomedical eng, amirkabir university of technology ,expert of computer eng in urmia university of medical sciences   2 member in departement of biomedical eng. , amirkabir university of technology   3 assistant professor of departement of biomedical eng. , amirkabir university of technology (corresponding author)