A whole world of services in the consumer’s pocket
5.8.2. Some telemedicine success stories
T
that adds a microscope function and enables them to identif
he University of California has developed an application for mobile devices
causes malaria, send the information o
y the parasite that
in real time.
ver the Internet and provide a diagnosis
Mobile oper
provide a service that measures blood sugar lev
ator Verizon
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modified the 5200 model of
els. The Glucophone performs
LG’s mobile handset to
gly
an online disease control center
cemia analysis and stores the results in a database on the p
.
hone as well as
Nokia
ing patients with diabetes using the mobile phones. It is a solution that com
223
and Roche Diagnostics
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have developed an application for monitor-
bines the Internet and wireless services, using software that enables these pa
-
tients to be connected with healthcare professionals at all times. This application
-
is currently a
ticipating.
vailable in around 40 hospitals and more than 150 patients are par-
Gentag
quency w
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av
has dev
es and wireless technology to read the user
eloped a technology for mobile handsets that uses r
’
adiofre-
The company has focused on the development of applications related to health
s sensor information.
care, so that users can use their telephone as a temper
-
ple, this enables parents to keep a remote check their child’
ature gauge. F
s temper
or exam-
r
use it as a sensor to check blood sugar levels, cardiac activity and the ultr
ature, or to
aviolet
be used in the future to mak
ays to which the user is exposed.
e mobile handsets act as carbon mono
Gentag is developing the technology that will
xide sensors.
pates a future in which mobile systems will be used b
XVivo
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is an animation company that works in the health sector and antici
y pharmaceutical compa-
-
nies to show how a medical prescription affects a patient
thanks to intelligent robots, it will be possible to detect wounded troops in the
’s body. Furthermore,
arm
tion, carry out a scan and compare it with another normal one from the same
y, retrieve them wherever they are, analyze the seriousness of their condi-
222
http://www22.v
Verizon:
erizon.com/.
patient, in order to detect and cure wounds.
223
Nokia:
http://www.nokia.es/. The
224
http://www
Roche Diagnostics:
.rochediagnostics.es/.
its patients with pacemak
Xanit International Hospital
227
has implemented monitoring systems for
which consists of a handset that gathers information from these devices at a set
ers and defibrillators that can undergo an implant,
225
http://www
Gentag:
.gentag.com/.
time and automatically sends it to the doctor
email, fax or SMS on their mobile handset.
. The doctor receives this data via
226
XVivo:
http://www.xvivo.net/.
227
The MobiHealth project
228
has developed the teletr
http://www
Xanit:
prensa.php?idNotasPrensa=47
.xanit.net/detallenotas
.
technologies. Its functions include the possibility of treating pregnant women,
auma system based on 3G
thanks to sev
http://www
228
MobiHealth:
.mobihealth.org/.
mother and child, intr
eral sensors that register par
es remote monitoring possible.
auterine activity, etc. All of this information is sent to the
ameters such as the heartbeats of
hospital, which mak
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