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"Outbreaks Near Me" is an application for the popular smartphone developed by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston in collaboration with the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The application, which was developed with support from Google.org, the Web giant's philanthropic arm, enables users to track and report outbreaks of infectious diseases such as swine flu in real time....It is available for free from Apple's iTunes App Store...
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cientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device...
... Android, the first comprehensive open-source platform for mobile devices, was announced two years ago by the Open Handset Alliance, a group of companies of which Google is a member. For the past year UW computer science and engineering doctoral students Carl Hartung, Yaw Anokwa and Waylon Brunette have worked at Google's Seattle office using Android to create a data-collection platform for use in developing regions...
... Their free suite of tools, named Open Data Kit, is already used by organizations around the world that need inexpensive ways to gather information in areas with little infrastructure ... The tool is described in an article published this month in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Computer magazine. Gaetano Borriello, UW professor of computer science and engineering, and Adam Lerer, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are co-authors...
... In the past some researchers have harnessed individual cell phone models to collect data in the field. But when the phone gets outdated, so does the software. Instead of creating a tool for a single phone, or even a single purpose, the UW team built something that would provide a reusable platform to collect all types of mobile data...
... Open Data Kit's versatile suite of tools can collect data; store, view and export data on remote servers; and manage devices in the field from a central office. The output is compatible with emerging data standards such as the Open Medical Records System, which aims to coordinate health records in the developing world...
... Funding for the project comes from Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the company. The code is freely available and ongoing research will be based at the university...
See MedTech-IQ multimedia search results for mHealth: http://medtechiq.ning.com/main/search/search?q=mhealth
Read on at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029141249.htm
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... cellular operators are trying to become providers of wireless-health-care products and services. The market, known as mobile or m-health, spans everything from text messaging services to remind people to take medications to implants that monitor heart patients...
... Telecom operators view m-health as one of three future revenue streams, along with content and advertising ... France Telecom's (FTE) Orange, AT&T Wireless (T), Sprint Nextel (S), Verizon, Vodafone (VOD), and Japan's NTT DoCoMo (DCM) and KDDI all are investing in m-health...
... Vodafone, the world's largest wireless operator, spotted the potential two years ago when its venture fund took an undisclosed stake in t+Medical, an Oxford University spin-off that uses mobile technology to monitor health conditions...
... The cell-phone providers are joining a crowded field. Medical equipment giants such as GE Healthcare (GE), Philips (PHG), and Siemens (SI), chipmakers such as Intel (INTC), and countless startups are developing remote monitoring devices, wearable sensors, and health-related mobile-phone applications as rising costs force a shift in patient care from the hospital to the home...
Read on at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_15/b4173054256568_page_2.htm
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s, i.e., the type developed by CERMUSA and Loma Linda University, existing international volunteer teleconsultation networks, and on the ground medical expertise in Haiti make sense? We may have these capacities within the network.
I think the public health challenges of disease, wound care, chronic disease management, ect., will take the fore over the weeks to come.
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Healthcare is a highly mobile business. These are some wireless highlights from AT&T and its vendors on the floor at HIMSS10. For more information: http://go-att.us/healthcaremobility