Cambridge Consultants has a new concept they have dubbed the "connected patient". It is a low cost wireless platform that allows medical devices to deliver readings over the internet to a central monitor located at home or deliver the results to an online health records center.
The first device the company has prototyped is a wireless asthma inhaler.
The inhalers connect to an online personal health care application via a smartphone or a computer. The inhaler then can both remind patients to take their treatment and send compliance information to the relevant personal health care location online. Both patient and health care specialist can access the secure information to monitor progress and connect with one another.
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5.07.2009
Tech for your Health
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Life saving technology. About time we got up to speed with out health care. Keep the innovations coming.
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