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Mobile Phones for Health Monitoring

last updated Mar 19, 2013

Overview

Implementing organization: 
The UK – India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), Loughborough University, Indian Institute of Technology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University and London’s Kingston University
Income Level of Target Population: 
All income levels

Technology

Technology Used: 
Phones › SMS/MMS (Text Message)
Technology Purpose: 
Extending Geographic Access
Summary: 

Long considered a ‘rich country disease,’ diabetes is spreading rapidly in the developing world as affluence changes traditional dietary habits. In 2005, engineers at Loughborough University developed a mobile phone health monitoring system to monitor diabetes and other diseases.

Key program components: 

The system allows doctors to use mobile phone networks to monitor up to four key medical signals (electrocardiogram heart signal, blood pressure, levels of blood glucose, and oxygen saturation levels) from patients who are on the move. Engineers from the UK and India are working to ‘miniaturize the system’ so that sensors are small enough to be carried by patients while procuring the necessary biomedical data. In Britain, the solution will be used to improve healthcare delivery, while in India it will connect ‘centers of excellence’ to hospitals and clinics in more remote areas. Over the next three years, clinical trials will occur in both the United Kingdom and India.

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