Naoki Nakashima, Tatsuo Hiramatsu, Partha Pratim Ghosh, Rafiqul Islam, Kunihisa Kobayashi, Toyoshi Inoguchi
Management system of chronic diseases in developing countries and post-disaster situation has been required. Body area network (BAN, IEEE 802.15.6) is expected to be useful in medical field. To evaluate BAN standard, we are implementing BAN in our attaché case type sensor set named "Portable Health Clinic" (PHC), and conducting systematic health checkup in rural and urban areas in Bangladesh. (Methods) In the PHC, we packed weight scale, blood pressure meter, blood sugar meter, body thermometer, pulse oxymeter, as electrical devices, and tape measure (for height, waist and hip), urine test tape (for urine sugar, urine protein and urobilinogen) as no-electrical devices...
2013: Conference Proceedings: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society