The Aging Population and Its Needs
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Empirical study of a medical sensor application in an urban emergency department
BodyNets '09 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Body Area Networks
Providing QoS support for wireless remote healthcare system
ICME'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Multimedia and Expo
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
sMAP: a simple measurement and actuation profile for physical information
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
EasiCPRS: design and implementation of a portable Chinese pulse-wave retrieval system
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Body area network for first responders: a case study
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Body Area Networks
An integrated data mining approach to real-time clinical monitoring and deterioration warning
Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
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Staff shortages and an increasingly aging population are straining the ability of emergency departments to provide high-quality care. Moreover, there is a growing concern about the ability of hospitals to provide effective care during disaster events. Tools that automate patient monitoring would greatly improve efficiency, quality of care, and the volume of patients treated. Towards this goal, we have developed MEDiSN, a wireless sensor network for monitoring patients' vital signs in hospitals and disaster events. MEDiSN consists of Patient Monitors which are custom-built, patient-worn motes that sample, compress and secure medical data, and Relay Points that form a static multi-hop wireless backbone for carrying patient data. Moreover, MEDiSN includes a back-end server that persistently stores medical data and presents them to multiple GUI clients. MEDiSN's heterogeneous architecture enables it to address the compound challenge of reliably delivering large volumes of data while meeting the application's QoS requirements.