Thursday 12 December 2013

"A composite personal health monitor solution bridges the gaps between patients and doctors."

"Heart disease and stroke count up to 25% of all death in the world."
"Every 33 seconds, a person dies of heart disease in the U.S."
"90% of the death can be prevented if timely medical actions can be taken."
Human health is an increasingly popular public concern. People spend tons of money on it because once get sick or dead, anything else becomes meaningless. Unfortunately, people always find that it is too late to receive serious medical care when things are already noninvertible. Lots of patients can be cured if early actions can be taken. However, the access to the medical equipment is inconvenient and expensive. Among the most important indexes of the human health, heart rate and body temperature are the most vital ones and they have the advantage of easy access. In addition, unlike the X-ray, the measurement of heart rate and temperature is extremely easy conduct and does no harm to human health itself.
In the current market, there are some personal medical devices which patients can use to do some basic measurement themselves. However, on one hand, since patients generally have little medical background, they have a hard time interpreting the medical measurement into meaningful diagnosis. On the other hand, delivering the raw medical measurement data to the doctors is time-costing and troublesome. Time can never be wasted when emergencies happen, it is critical if information can be shared on large scale coverage within a short of time. Most of the products in the market have these major drawbacks with limitation in flexibility and portability.

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