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Hi all

i would like to get advice on how to build a patient management system that will monitor heart beat rate, ECG and blood pressure and will be monitored over the web using a browser or on a PC with a processing program.

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    It's certainly possible to do this, but there are serious issues involved. I'm not in the medical field, but I do know that any equipment used to monitor patients must be of a certified design and periodically calibrated/maintained. The certifications are based on very expensive and time-consuming testing to ensure that the data collected is accurate and complete. Good luck ensuring that with an Ardu.

     

    Also, the amount of code that would need written would be substantial, and subject to serious timing issues (remember, we're single-threaded in Ardu sketches).

     

    If all that weren't enough, I think what you've described already exists. The last time I was in hospital, I unplugged my heart-rate monitor to go to the loo. The nurse was there before I'd made it across the room; I'd set off an alert at the nurse's station. It was a "feature" that I used for personal amusement after I'd learnt that.. image

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    It is possible.  Again like Ken stated it's not entirely practical.  If it is just for proof of concept or for smaller implementations that go ahead and do this.  Here is a link to a video by colin cunningham.  He made a heart rate monitor using infrared leds and recievers.  http://blog.makezine.com/2009/11/30/collins-lab-infrared-heart-sensor/ .  The rest is a matter of finding sensors.  You can push it to a web server by using php and jquery.  I'm not quite sure how to do RTS stuff but you can set the php and jquery script to refresh when there is a change to the data.  You can even implement this with mobile apps.  If there is a situation where vital signs are at a dangerous level, you can send a push notification.  If you decide to go through with this I would love to help you write the code.  Good luck and keep up the ideas image

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    You can use this http://semu.github.com/noduino/ to get real time info.  You can also look at libraries that can take log info and push the data to a real time server.  So software wise your covered.  You just need to get data from your sensors, do some processing, and push it.