News - Intel unveils healthcare offering

[HEXUS]

First Home Medical Device announced by chip giant, designed to enable remote access between patients and healthcare professionals.

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[Biscuit]

Sounds slightly like an expensive way of becoming a hypochondriac

[Nub1]

Dunno about this at all.

Taking your BP at home where you're relaxed sounds great. No more white coat syndrome. But will people use their instruments correctly? Use different arms for BP, have a coffee before reading, go for a jog or have just run down stairs before taking their BP. Even talking when the automated machine is reading can put it off. Wrong BP/ Glucose/ INR etc readings uploaded to the NHS.net and your GP could be dangerous leading to increases or decreases in treatment.

Having said that, so long as it doesn't take the place of face to face consultations with a health professional then it may have a place re-assuring people.

[rjpearce]

But will people use their instruments correctly?

It's got built-in two way voice/video communication so i guess the doctor would guide the patient thru the process. This kind of technology has been on the cards for a while and there are already several other systems in existance.. but i guess this is a first for Intel.. Shame there arent any wireless medical devices on show. I'd expect many more models to popup with more functionality in future..



-Rich

[Nub1]

It's got built-in two way voice/video communication so i guess the doctor would guide the patient thru the process.
-Rich

If it ends up over here, the NHS could never afford to have doctors at the other end not @ £100/hr (that's what they get round East Anglia). It'll be some call centre operator on min wage.

Some of the devices out now are able to be hooked up to pc's eg glucose monitors and it shouldn't be to hard to have this link to the net BUT the ageing population is mainly technophobic so I'm not really sure of whether anything like this will succeed.

But then again I'm not often right, ask her indoors