Global Journal of Engineering, Science & Social Science Studies Available online at www.gjess.edwin.co.in Volume 05, Issue 06, June 2019 ISSN- 2394-3084 1 | Page WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: A VITAL ROLE IN HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT S. M. Ghatole Associate Professor Shivaji Science College, Nagpur (MS) India smghatole@gmail.com Abstract: This paper describes the role of communication technology in healthcare management. The health care informations are communicated via information and communication technology (ICT). The technology used may be in wireless personal area network (WPAN), wireless local area network (WLAN), wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) or wireless wide area network (WWAN), it processes the health parameters required for continuous monitoring. The compact sensor network receives and process signals of body parameters. The sensors of a wireless body area network (WBAN) transmit the signals to the destination. The data is saved in database for future use. It consists of two nodes and a base station that was successfully built and tested using open source and low cost hardware to measure the different body parameters. Each node is combination of a pulse sensor, a temperature sensor, GPS module and ZigBee wireless modem or Bluetooth. The base station is constituted using a receiver ZigBee modem and a Wi-Fi module. The mobile communication technology may also be used. The system has been tested in real time where data was processed and displayed successfully. Keywords: Wireless Body Area Network, Sensors, Vital signals, Wireless Communication. 1.0 Introduction The ICT is used for processing information and become crucial part of human life. Health monitoring is essentially required due to quickly increasing health problems with modern lifestyle, for survival of especially elders, baby and chronically ill patients. The chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and diabetes are rapidly increasing due to aging and sedentary life style The aging population in developed countries and the expensive healthcare had pressed the emerging technology and leads to improvements of current healthcare practices. The recent advances in electronics and communication technology had been enabled the development of bio-medical sensors that can be worn or implanted in the human body. The wireless sensors have the capability to collect vital data about the health condition. The node of WBAN with the capability of real time monitoring with vital signals of patient such as pulse rate, body temperature, blood pressure and other parameters. The information is collected using WBAN and send to the physician or care giver. The data is sent to an external server for analysis and storage purpose. WBANs provide an effective and efficient solution for detection of diseases and long term patients monitoring. WBAN can monitor single or multiple signals at the same time and can include implantable or wearable bio- sensors. There are various data transmission system in WBANs consists of ZigBee, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. The presented system works on the realization of patient monitoring system and based on a real time wireless body area networks. The system consists of two nodes where vital signals are collected and transmitted to a base station, where the data can be stored and displayed continuously. Each node comprises a pulse sensor, a temperature sensor, a GPS module, and a ZigBee wireless module. The base station consists of a receiver ZigBee module and a Wi-Fi module. These wireless modules are easy to configure and good for point-to-point, multipoint and convertible to a mesh network point 2.0 System Design The technology used to transmit information may be in wireless personal area network (WPAN), wireless local area network (WLAN), wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) or wireless wide area network (WWAN) depends on the distance. The details are given in table A. Technology Distance Standard WPAN 10m ZigBee, Bluetooth WLAN 100m IEEE 802.16 LAN WMAN 5km IEEE 802.16 Wi- Max WWAN Worldwide CDPD Mobile Table A: Transmission Format The structure of the system is described in this section. The WBAN system operated as a single hop star topology in beacon mode. The system sends the data