Adibi Sasan
Huawei Technologies, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2012 Jul;16(4):586-97. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2191295. Epub 2012 Mar 19.
The number of wearable wireless sensors is expected to grow to 400 million by the year 2014, while the number of operational mobile subscribers has already passed the 5.2 billion mark in 2011. This growth results in an increasing number of mobile applications including: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, Electronic-Health (eHealth), and Mobile-Health (mHealth). A number of emerging mobile applications that require 3G and 4G mobile networks for data transport relate to telemedicine, including establishing, maintaining, and transmitting health-related information, research, education, and training. This review paper takes a closer look at these applications, specifically with regard to the healthcare industry and their underlying link technologies. The authors believe that the BlackBerry platform and the associated infrastructure (i.e., BlackBerry Enterprise Server) is a logical and practical solution for eHealth, mHealth, sensor and M2M deployments, which are considered in this paper.
预计到2014年，可穿戴无线传感器的数量将增长至4亿个，而在2011年，移动电话用户的数量已超过52亿。这种增长导致移动应用的数量不断增加，其中包括：机器对机器（M2M）通信、电子健康（eHealth）和移动健康（mHealth）。一些需要3G和4G移动网络进行数据传输的新兴移动应用与远程医疗相关，包括建立、维护和传输健康相关信息、研究、教育和培训。这篇综述文章将更深入地探讨这些应用，特别是在医疗保健行业及其底层连接技术方面。作者认为，黑莓平台及相关基础设施（即黑莓企业服务器）是电子健康、移动健康、传感器和M2M部署的合理且实用的解决方案，本文将对此进行探讨。
