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Abstract : Cardiovascular diseases in rural developing countries take a large toll of human lives, due to inadequate quality health care facilities and their limited reach to the patients. The burgeoning population of developing nations make the lin- ear organic scaling of health care facilities impractical to cater the diverse rural geography. Hence it is imperative to scale the health care facilities through wireless communi- cation technologies in an aordable manner. Timely anal- ysis of ECG data is critical for early diagnosis and treat- ment of several cardiovascular diseases. With this aim, a wearable wireless ECG monitoring framework, named as Amrita-Spandanam was designed. This framework consist of a patient wearable device and a patient smart phone with Amrita-Spandanam application, enabling a doctor/hospital to monitor the remote patient through his internet con- nected mobile phone or web browser. The framework does the post analysis of the ECG signal using a backend server to disseminate warnings to the doctor and the patient. Sev- eral de-noising algorithms were applied to the acquired ECG signal prior to this post analysis. The framework was imple- mented successfully enabling real time remote monitoring of the cardiac patients in rural villages.