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First demonstrated in 1997 by two researchers, including founding MedNets Board member, Kevin Montgomery, Ph.D., during a flight between Chicago and Los Angeles, the software enables live transmisssion of vital signs, including electrocardiogram signal, pulse oximeter data and even video, all through the 4.8 kbps bandwidth of the phone on the back of an airliner seat.
Standard internet access bandwidths are usually above 28.8 kbps. This compression software facilitates near perfect video signals at 56 kbps transmissions, and perfect EKG live transmissions at any speed as low as 2.4 kbps.
Now that it has been demonstrated in flight over the cellular networks of North America and over the satellite hookups during a Pacific ocean flight, it is clear that this is the technology to facilitate live monitoring of patients anywhere, stationary or mobile, on the ground or in the air.
MedNets and our strategic partners can supply remote cardiac monitoring over standard phone lines to patients in their homes, in residential care facilities, and also while in transit in moving vehicles. This technology can enable physicians in Clinics or Hospitals to see the actual real time cardiac rhythms of patients, and to communicate immediate orders to nurses and paramedics in the field, based on these live transmissions. Live Internet Monitors
Very low band width live transmissions.
Ambulance mobile EKG's LIVE!
Cardiac Monitoring at home
Hospital Telemetry
Nursing Home Telemetry
Residential Care Telemetry
Live Video monitoring
Marine transmissions
Airliner transmissions
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Telemedicine
Compression Software
| MedNets' compression software is the only technology that enables LIVE, STREAMING, REAL-TIME monitoring of cardiac electrocardiogram signals, and any other digital medical parameters, from any point, mobile or stationary, to any other point, mobile or stationary, via secure channels over the Internet. |
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The Flight Test of the Technology
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| Live simultaneous transmission of multiple medical monitoring parameters to several different monitoring stations. This is the proof that live vital signs monitoring of patients from any point moving or stationary to any other point, moving or stationary is now available.
Dr. Gandsas is seen "blowing" off carbon dioxide through an oral detector while the data is being sent to Argentina. This parameter is very useful to see if a passenger is hyperventilating (fast breathing), which is a common cause of dizziness and nausea.
A simulated cardiac arrest was transmitted and handled according to ACLS protocols. Directions were received and followed from one of the ground stations. This technology is able to deliver vital signs and real time video from a sick passenger, to any computer connected to the Internet regardless the geographical position of the aircraft.
This application in flight is the most difficult demonstration of the software. It is also capable of live cardiac monitoring from vehicles and from stationary positions.
Because this bandwidth is very narrow, it is well within the bandwidth capacity of all current satellites. The other applications of this technology include high speed low band width non medical data transfers from remote areas by cellular or satellite networks. |
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| A Propaq monitor (left) connected to laptop (right). Notice the software sending data and real time video to the ground at a speed of 2,400 bps. |
This was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, March 11, 1998.
There are four videos of this Flight Test
Flight test, movie 1
Flight test, movie 2
ABC-News TV Broadcast
FOX News TV Broadcast
NOTE: You will need REAL PLAYER to view these movie clips
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