For the moment, there are about 80 million patients suffering from heart diseases in China. In most cases, patients suffering from heart diseases need to have their heart and lungs measured for two or three times each day and data concerning their heartbeats must be examined by a doctor within an hour. In some cases, it is necessary to check the number of the patients’ heartbeats then and there. Volume of device resources and manpower resources of hospitals are limited and they are under huge pressures in terms of monitoring over patients. M2M technology provides an awesome solution for this phenomenon.

The M2M technology can be applied to Telemedicine so as to strengthen the monitoring over patients.

Doctors provide respective patients with a portable heart monitor. Whether at home or anywhere, heartbeat, blood pressure, pulse will be measured automatically. Such data together with information on the patients’ health status and their position will be transmitted to the server in the hospital in a real time manner. Thus, it will be possible for medical staffs to check such data and make correct diagnoses in time and patients will receive doctors’ advice in short messages. In emergency, it is also possible to have a doctor, first aid services or the patients’ relatives informed. Long-distance medical treatment has broken the obstruction in terms of time and space while being scientific and reliable.

In addition, urban people usually have no time looking after or paying visits to their elders. With the M2M technology, the elders’ health status can be transmitted to the medical treatment calling center and family members automatically and it will be possible to get aids and have emergencies treated in time.

• In-time extraction of data on life signs
• Real-time monitoring conducted by doctors and nurses
• In-time responses of the medical treatment calling centers
• Emergencies will be transmitted to family members and the doctor in charge in time

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