An ECG Acquisition/Local Server Unit for Remote Patient Consultation

With the advent of current electronics technology and access to the Internet, it is now possible to obtain distant medical diagnostics and counseling at a distance. However, because of the size and cost of such medical equipment, third-world and developing countries continue to face barriers to primary medical consultation and testing. One such medical situation is the early assessment of patients’ cardiovascular well-being. An attempt has been made in this suggested framework to build and implement a low-cost ECG collection combined with a local storage server system capable of capturing and storing patient data locally. When the system is connected to the Internet, the server can send patients’ ECG data to a group of registered cardiologists for immediate assessment of a patient’s criticality and generate complete assessment reports of individuals by collecting tagged information from the cardiologists’ responses in addition to local storage. These comprehensive assessment reports can then be printed for the patient or electronically mailed to others who need to know. This system is portable, low-cost, and seamlessly implementable into the Android UI for better usability over uninterrupted Internet service.