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Taking Care of Mobile Patients
Roland Piquepaille writes "After a patient has been hospitalized for a surgical intervention, he usually wants to return to his normal life. But doctors would like to monitor him to be sure that the operation was successful. How can they manage this without being too intrusive? In "Health Care Monitoring of Mobile Patients," Italian researchers offer a three-layer networking solution. First, a body area sensor network would continuously record your cardiac activity or your body temperature. A second level would involve a home sensor network, including for example a PC wirelessly receiving this information. Finally, this home network would be able to alert an hospital network if needed. Right now, this whole idea is at the proof-of-concept level, but it really looks promising."
If I have surgery, I don't want a bunch of docs hovering around me. Good idea.
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, probably an injured one.
Just wait until his ISP kicks him off due to threats by the .*AA and he flatlines on them.
+1 No link to his bogus website.
Or the War Catheterizers will wreak havoc.
I somehow read the title as, "Taking care of mobile patents," and immediately got bent about some organization having the gaul to patent how to take care of patients.
Ack - slashdot has turned me from a skeptic into a cynic.
I must sign off now, but of course I'll hit reload one last time just in case another interesting article has been posted. So yeah - I'll probably still be here in a our or so...
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
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"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Okay, I've been waiting a while to see the Microsoft jokes come up, but none yet. Someone's gotta do it I guess:
It gives a whole new meaning to "blue screen of death"
Sorry...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
The doctors are able to electrocute you to death when you fail to make payments.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
I wonder if Dick Cheney has one of these with like a "Hit Counter" so he knows how many heart attacks he has.