Efficient Remote Medical Support System Design on Using H.264/AVC

Remote medical Support System (RMSS) means a remote support system among 4 remote telemedicine services of U-Health. A currently available service in Korea is the one checking and maintaining patient's status and supporting in emergency through video communication between an ambulance transferring patients and hospital under HSDPA and WiBro environment with coding of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. With that, this paper improves the stability of the current RMSS service of ambulance confirms the improvement compared to the old system by generating a system communicating by RTP/RTCP under coding process through H.264/AVC after converting RGB video to YUV in order to improve network efficiency.

I. Introduction

U-Health, an abbreviation of ubiquitous health, is an integrated concept of Healthcare and Wellness. It can be defined as a service system or environment supplying health care services of prevention, diagnosis and post-management anytime and anywhere by combining medical industry and IT. U-Health is an ideal health care system to ensure human's healthy life by systematically connecting health care providers and beneficiaries [1].