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In particular, the remote and continuous monitoring of vital signs such as electrocardiograms are critical for improving the detection rates and speed of abnormalities while improving accessibility for elderly individuals. In this paper, we consider the design and deployment characteristics of a remote patient monitoring system for arrhythmia detection in elderly individuals. Thus, we developed a scalable system architecture to support remote streaming of ECG signals at near real-time. Additionally, a two-phase classification scheme is proposed to improve the performance of existing ECG classification algorithms. A prototype of the system was deployed at the Sarawak General Hospital, remotely collecting data from 27 unique patients. 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