Increase in heart disease and diabetes has provoked innovators to think about medical technologies for preventive care that would be easy to use, portable and can allow remote monitoring. Freescale Semiconductor introduced a prototype of a product, which has capability to collect patient health data. This data can be seen by the doctor, either on site, if installed in hospital or could be assessed remotely through cloud computing servers.
David Niewolny, Medical Segment Marketing Manager, gave me a demonstration of the Freescale Medical Kiosk, which can do the following:
I see utility of this technology very useful in remote areas where healthcare is not assessable in small towns. This way doctors/hospitals can keep a watch on their patients remotely, by either setting up the Medical Kiosk in towns themselves or bringing these systems to towns in a van on regular basis, like every month.
David Niewolny, Medical Segment Marketing Manager, gave me a demonstration of the Freescale Medical Kiosk, which can do the following:
- take patients weight and height to calculate BMI
- monitor blood pressure, heart rate and even ECG
- option of selecting different languages
- pulse oximetry to know amount of oxygen in blood (by a photodiode sensor, no piercing)
- glucose level by integrated glucometer (based on needle prick technology)
- spirometry – blow into a device to gauge lung capacity (critical for asthma patients)
- information can be uploaded to your computer, cloud (Internet) and downloaded by your doctor
I see utility of this technology very useful in remote areas where healthcare is not assessable in small towns. This way doctors/hospitals can keep a watch on their patients remotely, by either setting up the Medical Kiosk in towns themselves or bringing these systems to towns in a van on regular basis, like every month.
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