BACKGROUND Due to recent advances, door-to-balloon time (D2BT) has been reduced significantly for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). However, whether this reduction can be translated into a concrete mortality or morbidity benefit is still the subject of controversy. We conducted a before-and-after study to determine the impact of in-hospital tele-electrocardiograp...

Telemonitoring is a medical practice that involves remotely monitoring patients who are not at the same location as the health care provider. The purpose of our study was to use handheld tele-electrocardiogram (ECG) developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) to identify heart conditions in the rural underserved population where the doctor-patient ratio is low and access to health care is...

In the context of scientific and technical history electrocardiography, development transtelephone electrocardiography (tele-ECG) remains unexplored - as a set methodological aspects remote ECG transmission via telecommunication. This direction played significant role in medical science practice middle twentieth century, many ways it relevant to this day. The task study. To identify systematize...

BACKGROUND Due to the great variability of 12-lead ECG instruments and medical specialists' interpretation skills, it remains a challenge to deliver rapid and accurate 12-lead ECG reports with senior cardiologists' decision making support in emergency telecardiology. METHODS We create a new cloud and pervasive computing based 12-lead Electrocardiography (ECG) service to realize ubiquitous 12-...

BACKGROUND We report the preliminary data from a regional registry on ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients treated with primary angioplasty in Apulia, Italy; the region is covered by a single public health-care service, a single public emergency medical service (EMS), and a single tele-medicine service provider. METHODS Two hundred and ninety-seven consecutive patients with STE...

Electrocardiography (ECG) signal is popularly used for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). However, in recent times ECG is being used for identifying person. As ECG signals contain sensitive private health information along with details for person identification, it needs to be encrypted before transmission through publicmedia.Moreover, this encryption must be applied with minimal delay ...

The fundamental principle for telemedicine implementation in the real world is to address basic needs of healthcare services. utilization naturally aimed overcome distance, time, and financial constraints. Remote areas that are far from cities centers main regions would mostly get benefit program, instance, Indonesia, a country with big archipelago area South-East Asia. primary center this comm...

We proposed a practical ECG compression system which is beneficial for tele-monitoring cardiovascular diseases. There are two steps in the compression framework. First, we partition ECG signal into segments according to Rto R-wave periods. The partition aims at achieving more stable statistical features between segments of ECG signal which is beneficial for saving bit rates. After the partition...