Health by Phone
August 4, 2004, Chris Vanstone
Italian telco Tim and Health Telematic Network, are launching the first Italian sms-based health service, allowing TIM subscribers to get information about blood analysis, medicines, meaning of medical words (and their translation in english if needed), etc. An sms " therapeutic reminder" will also warn the patient when the hour has come to swallow his pills.
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Jiva's TeleDoc project in India is already doing some interesting work in this area.
See; www.jiva.org/Health/teledoc.asp
"Since 2001, Jiva has been working closely with community heads of villages in Haryana, India, to identify healthcare priorities and test appropriate health solutions. The result is TeleDoc-a Jiva Health initiative, funded by the Soros Foundation, which seeks to bridge this critical gap between rural populations and quality health services by using Java-enabled mobile telephones to provide village-based healthcare workers with real-time ability to record and transmit diagnostic information.
Jiva's expert panel of doctors analyzes this data, and then prescribes medication and treatment. Medicines are compounded at a regional office, picked up by TeleDoc field workers, and delivered to rural patients in the comfort of their homes-all for 70 rupees or US $1.50 per consultation. "
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Jiva's TeleDoc project in India is already doing some interesting work in this area.
See; www.jiva.org/Health/teledoc.asp
"Since 2001, Jiva has been working closely with community heads of villages in Haryana, India, to identify healthcare priorities and test appropriate health solutions. The result is TeleDoc-a Jiva Health initiative, funded by the Soros Foundation, which seeks to bridge this critical gap between rural populations and quality health services by using Java-enabled mobile telephones to provide village-based healthcare workers with real-time ability to record and transmit diagnostic information.
Jiva's expert panel of doctors analyzes this data, and then prescribes medication and treatment. Medicines are compounded at a regional office, picked up by TeleDoc field workers, and delivered to rural patients in the comfort of their homes-all for 70 rupees or US $1.50 per consultation. "