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More health care initiatives using cell phones reported by Government Health IT Online News:
The Army wants to develop a text-messaging system to communicate with service members suffering from traumatic brain injury. The system would help health care providers monitor TBI patients as well as prompt them to take treatment actions.
Cell phone prompting has already made its way into the health care technology arena. A U.S.-sponsored international AIDS relief effort, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), announced earlier this year a $10 million project to use cell phones to treat and educate people about HIV/AIDS. The program, called Phones-for-Health, will benefit 10 PEPFAR-supported countries by 2010.
WellDoc Communications Inc., based in Baltimore, has a system that prompts diabetes patients to test blood glucose levels at specific times of the day and provides feedback on the results.
Hello Health, a product from a Quebec City-based company called Myca, provides a cell phone-based service that monitors nutrition, exercise, and medical conditions, and enables patients to schedule mobile videoconferences with its doctors.
(Thanks to ICMCC)
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