Mobile health monitoring partnership

engineers have forged a partnership with experts in

to develop their mobile phone health monitoring system. The device, which was first unveiled in 2005, uses a mobile phone to transmit a person's vital signs, including the complex electrocardiogram (ECG) heart signal, to a hospital or clinic anywhere in the world.

Created by Prof. Bryan Woodward and Dr Fadlee Rasid from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, the system enables a doctor to observe remotely up to four different medical signals from a freely moving patient. Signals that can be transmitted include the ECG, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and blood glucose level.

Now the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) has awarded Woodward a grant, enabling him to join forces with experts in India on the project. Working with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University and London's Kingston University, he is hoping to miniaturise the system, designing smart sensors and mini-processors that are small enough to be carried by patients and able to acquire biomedical data from them.