Flag your pulse problems!
“Stethoscopes are mobile, but doctors aren’t, “says Thomas
Brennan, a head researcher at Oxford University.
So he and his team are using low-cost parts — such as the
microphone of a Nokia cell phone — to create a device that allows untrained
health workers to record a heartbeat and send it to doctors for analysis.
In this 15-part series on the thrilling, disruptive
potential of "mHealth," I highlight businesses using mobile
technology in health care.
Leveraging the wonders of a device that's fast becoming
ubiquitous – two in three people worldwide own a cell phone – a new generation
of startups is building apps and add-ons that make your handheld work like
high-end medical equipment.
Cheaper, sleeker, and a lot more versatile.
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