Bluetooth rescue

By modifying the Bluetooth wireless protocol, engineers have made a telemedicine system that can transfer patient data four times faster than conventional Bluetooth transfer.

Engineers from the PSG College of Technology Peelamedu, in Coimbatore, India, have devised a system that uses the short-range Bluetooth wireless networking protocol to connect a patient’s data to a network, which is then sent on to a healthcare provider.
 
For example, the researchers demonstrated this technology involving the transfer of CT scans to the healthcare provider's personal digital assistant (PDA) device. The team developed a system that can handle the digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) standard for medical images and use it to produce compressible images that can be transferred readily using Bluetooth.
 
"In medical imaging, picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) are computers in networks dedicated to the storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of images," the team explained in a study published in the forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics.
 
The embedded Bluetooth system is an ARM-based, 32-bit advanced embedded processor, commonly used in mobile data devices. 

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