Release date: 2009-10-09
Nowadays, it is quite common for people in developing countries to own a mobile phone. The debut of the third-generation mobile phone (ie 3G mobile phone) makes the mobile phone, a convenient communication tool, become a multi-function machine, including some computer functions, such as wireless Internet access with 3G mobile phones, access to information materials; TV functions, such as watching TV News, sports live, movies; MP3 functions, such as listening to various music programs. Not only that, but some medical device manufacturers are actively developing mobile phone-type medical devices.
Mobile phone that can be used as an assay machine
Sony Ericsson is developing a mobile phone type portable medical laboratory machine. It is like a small hospital laboratory. As long as the patient takes a drop of blood, saliva or urine and drops it on the chip inside the back cover of the mobile phone, the patient's CD4 cell count and T lymphocyte count can be measured in a short time to determine whether the patient is infected with HIV. (HIV) and other infections.
According to reports, the phone uses a lensless ultra-wide-angle cell detection alignment platform technology (LUCAS), which uses ultrashort-wave blue light to illuminate samples (such as blood samples, saliva-like) to make cell count interpretation. A computer chip is attached to the mobile phone, and the test result can be obtained in a short time. This mobile phone type test machine can be used to detect various uses such as malaria (determined by red blood cell readings), AIDS (determined by CD4 cells, T lymphocyte readings, etc.) and whether women are pregnant.
Sony Ericsson's technology staff said that an ordinary mobile phone can be transformed into a new type of test machine with an increase of less than $50. This new type of mobile phone has great practical value for rural doctors and patients.
Mobile phone that can monitor the heart at any time
There are tens of millions of patients with coronary heart disease in the United States. The most feared patients with coronary heart disease are sudden myocardial infarction when one person stays at home, and the treatment is delayed because no one is helping. In order to solve this problem, the scientific and technical personnel of the Medical Device Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh thought of the mobile phone. They added an electronic device to their regular mobile phone and named the phone "Smart Cell Phone." By placing the modified mobile phone on the chest of a coronary heart disease patient, the patient's heartbeat can be monitored at any time. Once the abnormal signal of the heartbeat is detected by the mobile phone, the alarm device pre-set in the mobile phone will send out an alarm signal, so that the doctor of the community hospital is notified at the first time, so that the medical staff can rush to the patient's home in time for rescue. The phone is available in the US and has been promoted in California. The results showed that the mortality rate of patients with coronary heart disease who purchased and used smart phones decreased by more than 60%.
After the smart phone is launched, it is popular among patients with coronary heart disease. Inspired by this, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are developing a second generation of new mobile phones that can directly transmit diagnostic images. According to researchers at the university, the new mobile phone under development can be connected to the B-ultrasound via a wire and send the image of the latter to a remote medical center. The medical center experts diagnosed the disease after reading the image sent by the mobile phone and gave it back to the local doctor. This new type of mobile phone that can transmit diagnostic images will have a broad market prospect in the future.
Mobile phone turned into a diagnostic instrument
According to a report released by the World Health Organization, about 75% of the world's people have never received X-ray, B-ultrasound, CT, MRI, PET and other modern electronic diagnostic instruments. Many people in developing countries have not done X-rays, which makes tuberculosis unclear until they get worse. On the other hand, some developing country hospitals spend a lot of money on the purchase of such electronic diagnostic equipment, and the diagnostic cost is raised to recover the cost, which in turn affects the chances of low-income patients doing instrumental diagnosis.
Currently used electronic diagnostic instruments usually consist of three parts: the patient health information collection system hardware, digital processing software, display system. Combine these three parts to become an electronic diagnostic instrument. IT technology experts believe that low-cost mobile phones can fully complete the first part of the work, that is, to collect patient health information. As long as the information is sent to the receiving end of the hospital electronic diagnostic instrument by wireless signal, it can be converted into a visible image after being processed by the computer software. This can save the patient from going to the hospital to directly diagnose the instrument and reduce the cost of diagnosis. If the mobile phone can be promoted, in the future, the patient can photograph an uncomfortable part of the body at home and transmit the image to the hospital terminal device, and the doctor can diagnose the patient's disease accordingly. This is equivalent to the diagnosis of various electronic diagnostic instruments for low-income patients. According to foreign media reports, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a new high-pixel mobile phone prototype (reported to have 5 megapixels) suitable as a "mobile phone diagnostic machine." The new diagnostic mobile phone is expected to be available in the near future, and its price will not be much more expensive than ordinary mobile phones.
Mobile phone becomes air medical center
Residents, especially the elderly, often have a variety of health problems, and they most hope to get professional guidance from doctors in a timely manner. Qaulcomm, the largest telecommunications company in California, has developed a wireless medical service software. Anyone who has an Internet phone in California can use the medical service software system developed by Qualcomm Telecom to solve some health problems anytime, anywhere, such as analyzing the symptoms of diabetes after taking the drug, or the feeling of flustering when running. Common health problems such as blood in the urine can be quickly answered by the community doctor by simply pressing the button set on the phone. This newly developed mobile phone software is equivalent to an "air doctor" that can serve patients anytime, anywhere. Newly developed air medical services are popular with California residents because many patients do not participate in US health insurance. The new phone developed by Qualcomm Telecom can also be used to directly measure blood sugar, because the phone has a blood glucose meter, software and test strips.
Leather shoes and mobile phones become remote diagnosis and treatment machines
A small company in the United States has invented a new mobile phone model for mobile phones. Its appearance is the same as ordinary leather shoes. Once you unscrew the thick heel of the shoe, you will find a small mobile phone hidden in the heel. It has a display and a keyboard to make a call. Researchers at the Medical Device R&D Center at Flinders University in the United States have a strong interest in this new phone. They intend to work with the inventor of the shoe and mobile phone to transform it into a new personal health information diagnostic machine for electronic medical device products.
Dr. Gordon of Flinders University explained that people should not laugh at the idea of ​​this "shoes phone", do not think that only spies will be interested in this product. In fact, the human foot can express a variety of health information, such as blood pressure, pulse, blood oxygen and so on. As long as the leather shoes are slightly modified, the vital signs information can be transmitted to the community medical center remotely. The doctor can monitor the patient's condition (especially the elderly cardiovascular disease patients) through the received mobile phone signal, and make a decision at any time. The decision to treat or emergency the patient. The leather shoe mobile phone is equivalent to a foot diagnostic instrument. As a remote telemetry information transmission machine suitable for elderly patients, the "shoes mobile phone" has broad market prospects.
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