Now, patients can check medical records through their mobile phone. A division of Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc., CapMed, has acquired the technology, which provides mobile phone-based medical records.
Around nine million people live in Rwanda and approximately, 200,000 of them are infected with HIV. So, the government of Rwanda is using mobile phones to track epidemics across the country.
Mobile phones have become more useful for citizens of Africa. Now the continent is using mobile phones to fight with the HIV/AIDS. US Government and 5 member groups from the mobile phone industry have taken this initiative step, named ‘Phone for Health’ to combat with HIV/AIDs.
The US Government and the leading mobile phone companies have joined together to fight with HIV/AIDS and other health related issues in 10 African countries.
Nonin Medical, Minneapolis-based privately owned company specialised in designing and manufacturing of physiological monitoring solutions, has joined 18 other companies, including IBM, Intel, Motorola, Philips Electronics and Welch Allyn, in a Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) Medical Devices Working Group to create a Bluetooth Medical Device Profile.
Bluethooth technology firms, such as Intel and Phillips, are planning to release health-related applications called blood pressure monitors.
