“Smart” health care: Google gaat de bloeddruk voor je bijhouden
ArraySearch giant rolls out service that monitors users’ medical devices.
Door een samenwerking met IBm gaat Google nu ook data uit medische apparaten verzameld. Volgens de zoekmachine gigant is het de bedoeling dat Google naast je medisch dossier ook automatisch aan dat dossier gaat toevoegen. IBM en hebben al modules voor Wi-Fi radios, bloeddrukmeters, hf monitoren, weegschalen en bloedsuikermeters aangesloten aan het netwerk zodat een apparaat dat je aan je PC ook real-time met je medisch dossier kan koppelen en de data dus kan importeren in je Google’s medisch dossier.
Hooking up those devices to the Web, IBM argues, will offer a new immediacy and granularity of health monitoring. A user can remotely track the blood pressure readings or glucose levels of a diabetic parent living alone, or stream his or her medical information like weight or heart rate directly to a doctor or physical trainer.
“If there’s something abnormal, you can catch it before you have an episodic intervention, like going to the emergency room,” says Dan Pelino, manager of IBM’s health care division. “This is like OnStar for a patient, keeping constant information about you and sending alerts even before you have a problem.”
For IBM, the new Google Health functions are also a dress rehearsal for “smart” health care nationwide. The computing giant has been coaxing the health care industry for years to create a digitized and centrally stored database of patients’ records. That idea may finally be coming to fruition, as President Obama’s infrastructure stimulus package works its way through Congress, with $20 billion of the $819 billion fiscal injection aimed at building a new digitized health record system.
Bron: Forbes
