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CIMIT Doctor's Kiosk...Automated health-care interface aims to streamline preventative screening
Colleagues,
As reported in MIT Tech Review...A computerized kiosk under development at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) can take a patient's medical history, weight, pulse, blood pressure, and other vital signs, and even perform simple blood tests for glucose and cholesterol. Physicians hope that the device, slated to begin field testing in the United Kingdom in June, will one day bring relief to the overburdened healthcare system, and allow doctors to intervene earlier in chronic disease.
Dr Ronald Dixon, M.D., director of the Virtual Practice Project, imagines that his kiosk--a small, Windows-based desktop computer with just a few peripherals--could one day revolutionize doctors' visits just as ATMs transformed banking...The kiosk consists of a tabletop computer and a number of peripherals--a blood-pressure cuff, a scale, a pulse oximeter to measure blood oxygen levels, and a peak-flow meter to determine whether someone's airways are constricted--as well as a blood-testing device commonly used in emergency rooms that can measure cholesterol and glucose levels.
This project derives from one of the MedTechIQ Top 10 "Triple Helix"...Academic, Government, Industry... Research Centers - CIMIT (Center for Integrating Medicine and Innovative Technology) a collaboration between "Problem Rich" medical providers associated with Harvard Medical School and the Partners Healthcare System & "Solution Rich" partners from MIT, the Draper Research Lab and industry in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts. An innovative and productive model.
Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22219/page2/
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in MIT Tech Review...A computerized kiosk under development at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) can take a patient's medical history, weight, pulse, blood pressure, and other vital signs, and even perform simple blood tests for glucose and cholesterol. Physicians hope that the device, slated to begin field testing in the United Kingdom in June, will one day bring relief to the overburdened healthcare system, and allow doctors to intervene earlier in chronic disease.
Dr Ronald Dixon, M.D., director of the Virtual Practice Project, imagines that his kiosk--a small, Windows-based desktop computer with just a few peripherals--could one day revolutionize doctors' visits just as ATMs transformed banking...The kiosk consists of a tabletop computer and a number of peripherals--a blood-pressure cuff, a scale, a pulse oximeter to measure blood oxygen levels, and a peak-flow meter to determine whether someone's airways are constricted--as well as a blood-testing device commonly used in emergency rooms that can measure cholesterol and glucose levels.
This project derives from one of the MedTechIQ Top 10 "Triple Helix"...Academic, Government, Industry... Research Centers - CIMIT (Center for Integrating Medicine and Innovative Technology) a collaboration between "Problem Rich" medical providers associated with Harvard Medical School and the Partners Healthcare System & "Solution Rich" partners from MIT, the Draper Research Lab and industry in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts. An innovative and productive model.
Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22219/page2/
ENJOY!
CC
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