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4. CONCLUSION

A wireless communication based portable telecardiology system for rural health care is prposed in this paper. For this purpose a wireless communication system in VHF band is used for both way transmission of ECG signal. Different important time plane features of ECG signals are also been extracted after detection of QRS, P and T waves. These time plane features are then further analyzed by an inbuilt knowledgebase and will generate an automated report that will suggest the primary treatment and preventive measures should be taken by the patient.

Mainly rural people will be benefited with this developed system. For a population of over a billion, there are only about six states of India having super specialty hospitals and that too catering to a niche urban populace. When you consider these facts coupled with the knowledge that there is no proper State health care policy, the magnitude of the inadequate medical facilities for the vast majority of the people living in rural areas can be understood. Specially, lack or absence of doctors is a common problem in all health centers or hospitals in those rural areas. The main utility of the proposed system is there is no need of presence of
doctor for consultation since the primary report will be generated by the developed knowledgebase. The system is also very much handy and cost effective hence can be implemented at all remote places.

For future development of the existing system, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques can be used for conversion of different medical terms of the generated report into common people’s understandable language. e.g, Hindi or Bengali for helping rural people to understand their health’s actual condition and to take the preventive measures properly, and we are carrying out to incorporate this facility in the developed system presently.


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