Taipei City Hospital

      Sudden death is often heard of in Taiwan and over 80% of the cases are caused by heart diseases. Last year, more than 16 thousand Taiwanese died from heart diseases, accounting for 10.9% of the total death toll. In Taipei, up to 12.3% of males who passed away last year died from heart diseases, second only to cancer. Given the alarming fact that the chance of a healthy person aged 50 developing myocardial infarction is about 1% each year, the Department of Health, Taipei City Government, Taipei City Hospital and Yang-Ming University have jointly developed the cloud electrocardiogram real-time monitoring system to prevent sudden ECG abnormality.

      Professor Guo Bozhao of Taipei City Hospital says that the equipment has already been applied to home patients. In case of a myocardial anoxia attack, the system will send anomaly signals to medical personnel for real-time tracing; therefore, the system must be ready for use at any time and location.

      The low complexity construction concept of the mini wireless ECG sensor fosters such advantages as being wireless, lightweight, energy-saving, relatively inexpensive and easy to operate, and the exclusively-developed Shennong module transmission system combined with the GPRS system, enables the ECG signals received by the electrocardiogram equipment to be synchronously and automatically uploaded to cloud at any given location. In order to allow the system to be used at any time and place, a cloud computer automated analysis platform is constructed to properly analyze ECG data; it also has the function of automatically notifying the doctor on duty in case of data exceptions. Through this method, ECG signals of the users can be monitored at all times.