Doctors into your pocket
2009-06-20 11:29:00 Source: Sichuan News Net - Chengdu Commercial Daily (Chengdu)
Be considered as early as the ancient Egyptians in 2750 BC on the surgery, followed by the Romans also invented the medical tools, such as medical and surgical needle pliers. Today, found that the wave of exploration has brought many miracles, such as antibiotics, vaccines and heart stents. These are the promotion of the health care reform.

Taking into account the history of innovation, health care industry but has yet to embrace information technology (IT). Since the 20th century, since the 80's, and other large-scale industries are in high spirits to begin the process of the computer, while doctors in most parts of the world is still dealing with the pen and paper.

Today, the industry is finally ready to catch up with this trend. This special report will introduce you to, information technology, network technology to the modern medical industry to bring enormous changes. A virtual electronic health records, a search of a medical database, a management medicine, "the wisdom of the network" will overhaul the current clinical practice, or even a long time to achieve the dream of people --- Remote treatment.

Sick,

Phone immediately to tell you

In addition to phone calls and send text messages, are there any other features? Some people use the Internet to chat, some people use it to send and receive e-mail, and others use it to navigation. Today, scientists are studying with a view to give the phone a more "serious" mission, "to join the" Healthy.

Drug testing can get mobile phones

UCLA researchers are using the phone's Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities, cameras and other equipment, by installing different software to achieve different purposes. They named this phone as a "shared sense." "Shared sense" mobile phone users can help testing exercise habits and health status, medication prompts the user time and asked if side effects occur. This diabetes, hypertension and other chronic diseases is particularly important.

"If you hurt the hip after the fall, will be able to know immediately. However, when you slowly, such as in the year to reduce the volume of activities, may not be aware of your health is being affected," experts say .

Recently, scientists have developed an ability to read the sample, blood tests of mobile phone chips. Al-Dai invention tournament chips, said: "For patients, the long wait for test results is an extremely painful experience. In such a chip with the help of doctor to the patient bedside tests immediately, and the spot results. chipset can also be implanted in the phone, and then through the wireless network test results will be sent to those who need it. "Asai said:" Imagine the example of Type A influenza H1N1, if everyone in the airport with such devices, diagnosis can be carried out immediately. "

Send text messages to protect patient privacy

South Africa, KwaZulu - Natal Province, the high population density, hygiene conditions are backward, one of the best the world has a high AIDS infection rates. Ren and Ms.尔萨贝斯infected with HIV virus, then launched a self-help program "iTeach". She and her partners have invented a clever way to use mobile phones to help silence suppressed AIDS.

萨贝斯together a large mobile phone company MTN, several academic institutions in the United States, there are a number of other groups, issued on the day of one million mobile phone text messages, and dialects across the call to encourage the recipient countries to fight AIDS hotline. SMS surprisingly good results, even before the young man is not easy to contact groups can receive. Now "iTeach" plans to arrange for people to clinics and provide medical保健箱.

"ITeach" program has become the world's largest mobile phone technology in health subjects. Ms.萨贝斯that the key to the success of the plan, not because the phone is very popular, but because the phone is a personal privacy, people do not need to worry about AIDS, the message was open, and unlike SMS advertising billboards or radio, can easily be missed hearing leakage or see. (杨筱also)

Do not go out,

Internet access will be able to see a doctor

Jay Parkinson, a pediatrician, he is always early morning coffee while watching the computer work arrangements. Drinking coffee, his first address to see the patients entered into the iphone, and then come to treatment. Some patients are willing to access the Internet or send text messages to see a doctor, have been willing to fight Parkinson's.

This is the "Hello, Health" plan lays out a blueprint of tomorrow --- online medical doctor.

Parkinson's "Hello, Health" program began in 2007. At that time, Parkinson's graduation from medical school, due to the education of hundreds of thousands of loans. Although, as a pediatrician, he earns about 77,000 U.S. dollars each year, but compared to bank debt and still far from enough. So, like many young entrepreneurs, he launched a Web site: potential patients who may in his appointment on Google Calendar. Their Web site, leave your name, address and description of the disease, and Parkinson's patients on this site. After the patient through PayPal (a network of payment) the payment of fees.

A few weeks later, local media have taken note of the small-scale practice of Parkinson's. He was invited on a talk show trump the United States, "Colbert Report", also received two books and a movie contract. "I am very surprised," Parkinson recalled, "people have hope that things can change for the better, as we all know the health care system is bad." After that, he received a Canadian software company (Myca) call. A result, "Hello, Health" project was born.

Today, I walked into the clinic with Parkinson's, you will find that it is not the impression you like the traditional clinics: there is no reception staff, no filing cabinets, and even there is no waiting area, only a few doctors in the use of laptop computers work, not when iPhone to play out with you.

In the "Hello, Health" Web site, patients pay 35 U.S. dollars a month can become a member, and then according to their own time-line booking. Treatment must be the first face-to-face, followed by patients on the e-mail, video calls or MSN to keep in touch and doctors. Door-to-door visits to the charges, but e-mail and SMS is free of charge. In addition, the patients all the files, records, and even the appointment in the "Hello, Health" network platform. However, you do not have to worry about infringement of privacy because the records of all patients with only himself and his medical team can be.

July 1, "Hello, health" of the network platform will further expand the scope of services, other hospitals and clinics, doctors can also be joined in order to become a network of doctors. Doctors communicate with each other, consulting, such as a skin upload photos, and then asked whether lupus experts agree that their own diagnosis. They also can be collected through the SMS-related disease progression in patients with data, such as a diabetic will receive three text messages a day asking him if the blood glucose level. These data will be on the patient's personal web page for health care team members can learn about the future. In addition, patients with the same condition also can create groups to exchange the disease, doctors can also be sent to them at any time-related research and medical progress.

Innovation has never been the thing for a day or two. In 2004, Facebook was born in Harvard, not even the elderly now have to use it. Therefore, regardless of the number of medical or long-distance medical treatment, and nothing is impossible. (杨筱also)

Google

Monitoring of disease outbreaks

From malaria to cholera, influenza A H1N1 from SARS to avian flu, the arrival of each epidemic are so unprepared humanity. Google has developed a new software to predict the next pandemic is expected to advance the time and place of arrival.

Google physician拉里布里兰特charitable sector, the comprehensive mobile communications and information technology, with active global surveillance system can be as early as SARS or global epidemic of HIV into the former, detected traces. He said: "The key lies in early detection and effective disposal."

Brilliant, said the forecast and prevention of infectious diseases is the key to electronic surveillance. Google co-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, such as the development of a software to predict outbreaks of infectious diseases. For example, the software can sort out the network, searching for news reports in various languages, monitoring of regional outbreaks of infectious diseases.

In "Nature" in February issue of a journal study, Google successfully demonstrated this technology, leading the Centers for Disease Control in the United States a week, early detection of epidemic outbreaks of infectious diseases. (吴涵)


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