The phenomenon of Teleambulance is becoming increasingly popular. This awakening technological development is enhancing the quality of healthcare delivery by providing possibilities for remotely assisting the emergency treatment of patients at the scene of incidence or during transportation in the ambulance before their arrival in the hospital wards. Both the mobile (ambulance) and the host (hospital) workstations communicate by sending messages, conveyed through the air by radio frequency (RF) signals. Transmitted data include. the emergency forms, monitored patient physiological measurements, textual remarks and images. The server/host resident software incorporates both a display and a database units for archiving the incoming patients records of incidence.

This paper aims at bringing to the limelight the state of the art in the developing world of Teleambulance. It presents the new GSM-based Teleambulance workstation which was designed and developed by the Laboratory For Biomedical Informatics (LBMI), to replace her previous radiomodem installation. The spectacular inclusions in this newly designed GSM-based configuration are the possibilities of combining the speech, the data and the fax communications in only one channel. More still, the system eliminates the thick-wall hospital screening effect and in no way whatsoever introduces radio frequency interference with the hospital electronic instrumentations. While the installation cost is almost only confined to the mobile station, the modularity of this new configuration boosts the cost effectiveness of a running Teleambulance service.