While many companies are using mobile analytics to measure their mobile advertising and marketing campaigns, scientists are developing healthcare-related smartphone apps that could actually save lives. The new apps are designed to help doctors by integrating with medical devices, enabling the smartphone to become the tool for data handling, analytics, visualization and communication.
For example, scientists at the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital have integrating a microNMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) device that accurately detects cancer cells with a smartphone, according to the article.
Another example was recently presented at Biotechnia 2013 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT): the nanopotentiostat, an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) system for monitoring age-related risk factors. AAL systems continuously monitor patients at home and are networked with medical centers to enable medical observation and diagnosis without inconvenient visits to the doctor. In the case of the nanopotentiostat, one of its major features is that it integrates three different sensors in one platform.
This mini all-rounder can determine the blood sugar, lactic acid or cholesterol from a single patient sample, use fluorescence to detect selected biomarkers and record the patient’s heart frequency and oxygen saturation. The data is processed via an app and forwarded securely to the patient’s doctor. This system has been developed by Fraunhofer FIT in cooperation with Charité and T-Systems Deutschland in the MAS (Nanoelectronics for Mobile AAL Systems) project that is sponsored by the EU and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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