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Today’s cell phones have the camera resolution, screen size and computing speed to become health care power tools.
Colleagues,
As reported in today's Government Health IT,
The cell phone might be the most significant information technology for improving health care since e-mail. The evidence is everywhere. In Botswana and Malawi, the Africa Teledermatology Project uses cameras and laptop PCs to capture and send images of patients to specialists in other African countries, Austria and the United States.
But inconsistent access to computers and the Internet led project leaders to turn to cell phones. The organization now partners with ClickDiagnostics, a company that uses mobile-phone technology to link patients in rural areas with distant medical specialists.
“In Botswana, we have an active teledermatology program, using digital cameras and the [organization’s] Web site,” said Dr. Carrie Kovarik, one of the project’s coordinators, assistant professor of dermatology and infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of ClickDiagnostics’ board of advisers. “However, given the lack of access to computers and physical Internet connections at the outreach sites, we are planning to provide access to consultation services through the mobile teledermatology technology,” she added...
Read on: http://www.govhealthit.com/print/4_22/features/350629-1.html?GHITNLnetworks=yes
ENJOY!
CC
P.S. Apologies to those enrolled in the "International Health" or "Telemedicine" Groups. This message went out to those Group members in an earlier transmission.
Colleagues,
As reported in today's Government Health IT,
The cell phone might be the most significant information technology for improving health care since e-mail. The evidence is everywhere. In Botswana and Malawi, the Africa Teledermatology Project uses cameras and laptop PCs to capture and send images of patients to specialists in other African countries, Austria and the United States.
But inconsistent access to computers and the Internet led project leaders to turn to cell phones. The organization now partners with ClickDiagnostics, a company that uses mobile-phone technology to link patients in rural areas with distant medical specialists.
“In Botswana, we have an active teledermatology program, using digital cameras and the [organization’s] Web site,” said Dr. Carrie Kovarik, one of the project’s coordinators, assistant professor of dermatology and infectious diseases at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of ClickDiagnostics’ board of advisers. “However, given the lack of access to computers and physical Internet connections at the outreach sites, we are planning to provide access to consultation services through the mobile teledermatology technology,” she added...
Read on: http://www.govhealthit.com/print/4_22/features/350629-1.html?GHITNLnetworks=yes
ENJOY!
CC
P.S. Apologies to those enrolled in the "International Health" or "Telemedicine" Groups. This message went out to those Group members in an earlier transmission.
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