Summary: IEEE Wireless Communications · February 201030 1536-1284/10/$25.00 © 2010 IEEE
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES FOR E-HEALTHCARE
INTRODUCTION
By deploying telecommunications technologies
to deliver health care and share medical knowl-
edge over a distance, telemedicine aims at pro-
viding expert-based medical care to any place
and at any time health care is needed. When the
first telemedicine services were provided,
telemedicine applications were implemented
over wired communications technologies such as
plain old telephone network (POTN) and inte-
grated services digital network (ISDN). Howev-

Source: Ansari, Nirwan - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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