Pantea Keikhosrokiani*, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Nasriah Zakaria*, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Norlia Mustaffa, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Tat-Chee Wan, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Track: Research Presentation Topic: Mobile & Tablet Health Applications Presentation Type: Poster presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2013-09-25

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Background:
Evolution of mobile technologies and the advancement of sophisticated wireless communication networks lead to the multimedia based services in the health care management sector and informatics emergence to form mobile-based Telemedicine. Mobile telemedicine includes healthcare, mobile hospital, hospital emergency system, maritime telemedicine, remote monitoring etc. to make more sustainable and effective platform for both remote patient and healthcare medical staff.

Objective:
The main objective of this work is to review the number of wireless and cellular communication technologies used in healthcare systems. Furthermore, we classify healthcare systems with an objective to highlight their communication technologies and quality of service (QoS). We make comparative study of healthcare systems in order to achieve a comprehension of mobile healthcare systems; as such systems are expected to become ubiquitous for the delivery of biomedical signals for telemedicine.

Methods:
After reviewing different communication technologies and methods in healthcare system, we used a comparative study in order to evaluate healthcare systems based on communication technologies and quality of service (QoS).

Results:
From our comparative study, we acquired strengths and weaknesses in terms of QoS of different mobile healthcare systems using diverse communication technologies. This study can be effective for designing the mobile healthcare systems in the future.

Conclusions:
At the end of this study, we conclude that the advancement of communication technologies provides efficiency and effectiveness for healthcare systems but at the same time adds complexity and sophistication to the use of those systems. Consequently, we point some significant issues of current healthcare systems and offer some recommendation for forthcoming mobile healthcare systems.