摘要 |
Described herein is a patient monitoring system that includes a body network ( 16 ) with at least one sensor ( 12 ) that senses physiological information about a patient and a cognitive device ( 2 ) for communicating the physiological information to a remote location. The cognitive device includes a cognitive radio ( 4 ), a cognitive monitor ( 10 ), and a transmitter ( 8 ). The cognitive radio ( 4 ) checks detected frequency spectra ( 6 ) for unused bandwidth and recommends one or more bands on which to transmit clinically relevant information received from the body network ( 16 ) to the remote location; the cognitive monitor ( 10 ) receives the information from the body network ( 16 ), prioritizes the information based at least in part on a set of rules ( 30 ), and selects which information to transmit based on the prioritization and the recommended transmission bands; and the transmitter ( 8 ) transmits the selected information as a junction of priority over at least one or the recommended transmission bands.
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