The application of wireless sensor network technology in the field of medical and health, especially in remote monitoring applications, has an important practical significance to our country entered old age. A design of wireless remote health monitoring system based on nRF24E1 was studied, completed the wireless sensor network node’s circuit of hardware , operating principle and design method of software. Through a simple application of the design, the resources of the hardware is saved, the complexity of the software is simplified . And the hardware of the system is simple, low power consumption and practical.