m have published "101 Things To Do With A Mobile Phone In Healthcare" online, and using it as a basis for a collaborative wireless ehealth development platform called theMobileHealthCrowd.com.
The 101 applications include diabetes management, hospital based RFID and the use of technologies such as Bluetooth and ZigBee in health and fitness monitoring. Also listed are a number of SMS messaging and Health 2.0 based medical applications.
The website has been designed as a low cost tool for exchanging ideas. theMobileHealthCrowd.com site is being used to collaboratively develop wireless healthcare applications and discovering new uses for existing devices, http://www.themobilehealthcrowd.com/?q=node/39."
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The new milestone puts the privately held San Mateo company’s offerings in the top 5 percent of iPhone applications ... Epocrates said its clinical information and decision support tools for doctors and other clinicians are also available on BlackBerry, Palm and other similar devices. The company claims an active network of 750,000 healthcare professionals, who access roughly 10 million monographs per month to check dosing, interactions, health plan coverage and other data...The company says more than one-third of the nation’s doctors and 40 percent of its medical students are active users of its data...
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in annual revenue. According to the report, mobile services companies will receive most of the new business...
... The report, titled "Telemedicine and the Economic Stimulus: Broadband Opportunities in a Swelling Market," attributed the growth in the telemedicine market to:
* Advances in wireless broadband networks, smart phones and data compression technologies;
* The federal stimulus package; and
* The need to curb rising health care costs
... The report predicts that mobile services companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and Nextel, will take a large portion of the telemedicine business. It adds that smaller software and device manufacturers likely will be acquired ...
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http://broadbandadvisoryservices.com/researchReportsBriefsInd.asp?repId=723
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The Seattle foundation's funds will support a large-scale neo-natal trial in the African nation of Zambia. BU researchers hope to prove that a simple, inexpensive change in the way newborns are handled can dramatically decrease neo-natal mortality...
... The research group, which already has a strong presence in Zambia, is setting out to prove that using an antiseptic wash called chlorhexidine to clean the umbilicus stump of newborns (the small piece of umbilical cord that remains for about a week after the cord is cut at birth) will improve baby survival rates ... Cell phone technology, which has recently arrived in Zambia, will be used to keep in touch with families during this crucial first week of life...
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that allow for low-powered sensors to communicate with one another and transmit data to a local base station and to remote places like hospitals.
For instance, small flat sensors placed on the skin, or even under it, could be used to create a “medical” body area network that provides doctors with real-time data about their patients’ bio-signs. Another key application is short-range person-to-person communications that could help protect front line soldiers in combat.
BAN technology is still in its infancy and mainstream adoption is still over the horizon as engineers and researchers work to overcome challenges involving interoperability, sensor design constraints (i.e. power and complexity), privacy, and security to name a few. Once these issues are overcome, expect BANs to first revolutionize healthcare allowing for concepts like telemedicine and mHealth to become real, and potentially allow for groundbreaking uses in communications, security, and sports.
Below, in no particular order, is a list of facts, news, and generally good things to know about BANs:
1. IEEE 802.15 Task Group 6 is on the case
Established 2 years ago, the IEEE BAN task group is “developing a communication standard optimized for low power devices and operation, in or around the human body (but not limited to the human body) to serve a variety of applications…”
2. Primitive technologies spell an alphabet soup of overlapping acronyms
* MBANs - Medical Body Area Networks
* BSN -Body Sensor Network
* PAN- Personal Area Network or (WPAN for wireless)
* MANET - Mobile ad hoc network
* MICS - Medical Implant Communication Service
3. UK researchers are working with the military to develop multimedia-enabled helmet technology ... Queen’s University Belfast’s Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) is working on equipment using advanced wireless systems that would outfit small squads of soldiers with head-up displays that share real-time video, covert surveillance data, and tactical info with each other....
4. A wireless digital ‘plaster’ that monitors vital signs is being tested on patients and volunteers at Imperial College London ... a company, Toumaz Technology, ... has begun clinical trials of a disposable body worn monitoring device it has developed that allows for the monitoring of body temperature, heart rate, and respiration of patients in a continuous and remote (limited to within a hospital) fashion ...
5. mHealth Initiative sets new course with updated website and international event. The Boston-based nonprofit looks to enable “Participatory Health” by merging healthcare with mobile phones and other wireless devices....
6. GE Healthcare is developing a Body Sensor Network (BSN) that consists of sensor devices that collect patient data ... The company requests that the FCC allocate frequencies 2360 to 2400 MHz on a secondary, licensed basis for low-power, short-range, wireless medical devices such as BSNs. The FCC listened…
7. FCC issued new rules for BANs this year ... In late June ‘09, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a notice of proposed rule making for allocating spectrum and establishing service and technical rules for the operation of Medical Body Area Networks...
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t is working on a number of projects in Africa that depend on cellular technologies to transmit health information to and from medical trouble spots.
In one project, DOD is working on a project to periodically send text messages to Tanzania's military.
The project, which will launch this year, “targets HIV knowledge and attitudes among military personnel in remote areas,” said Col. Ron Poropatich, deputy director of the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center.
Another telehealth project on the drawing board seeks to give Liberian military personnel health care training and the ability to reach hospital personnel in the capital of Monrovia for advice.
Mobile phones will play an important role in military health strategies in Africa because of the relatively high use of cell phones among the population.
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