A Singapore company has developed a complete unit to call and check his health ...
Check your heart rate, diabetes, learn about STDs: the phone Laptop turns increasingly to the health service, with effective means of prevention. "A doctor in your pocket!" Reads the brochure of the company EPI, based in Singapore and having its innovation at the World Congress mobile phone, organized from Monday to Thursday in Barcelona.
The product is called Life PPE, mobile phone integrated with an electrocardiogram. The aircraft, a "smartphone" measure your pulse by a simple touch of fingers on a sensor and sends the data to a medical call center open 24 Singapore 24. "We think this is a revolution. It is clinically proven, "says Dr Chow U-Jin, medical director of PPE (Ephone international).
An apparatus to 516 euros
"Around the world, you can use it as a phone but also send an ECG (electrocardiogram) and get an answer," adds to the AFP Chow U-Jin. "If the response is normal, you receive a text message only. If it is serious, they call you, "Sir, an ambulance arrives." We have three hospitals in Singapore to receive information "about your health.
Life EPI costs 700 dollars (516 euros), the price of a "smartphone" upscale. Two thousand copies have been marketed since November 2010. "The most obvious target is people with heart problems," said Dr Chow said, adding that three options are available: 10, 30 or 100 checks per month.
services available via SMS or MMS
This product also available in a mini version ($ 99) this time with a smaller unit to be connected by connection "Bluetooth" your smartphone, will soon arrive in France and Spain. But preventive health by mobile phone, dubbed mHealth ... Read the article on 20minutes.fr
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