Medical Monitoring & Remote Programming: From The Hindu: Indian Product Team has Produced Star Trek-Like Medical Hand-Held Scanner

Saturday, March 28, 2015

From The Hindu: Indian Product Team has Produced Star Trek-Like Medical Hand-Held Scanner

This development is something worth watching ...

Here's the link to the article: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/soon-a-tricorder-to-monitor-diagnose-health-conditions/article7040704.ece

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An Indian team is close to developing an electrical device that can diagnose 15 different medical conditions and can monitor vital signs for around 72 hours.

Chennai-based American Megatrends India is developing a medical hand-held scanner that is worthy to be included in the television show Star Trek.

American Megatrends’ medical device is a wireless health monitoring tool that can monitor a battery of vital statistics that include blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate and temperature, as well as atrial fibulation, sleep apnea, stroke, diabetes, etc. The device can collect large volumes of data from ongoing measurement of health states through a combination of wireless sensors, imaging technologies, and portable, non-invasive techniques. The stream of data generated will be stored in the cloud, currently on AMI’s own servers, with plans afoot to work with major cloud operators such as Apple and Google.

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