Mobile phones could be the next major platform for personal health monitoring tools, experts say.
In the future, people could use mobile phones to share, store and add information to their personal medical records. In addition, people with chronic conditions could use special add-on devices to monitor diabetes, blood pressure or oxygen levels in their blood.
In an iHealthBeat Special Report by David Gorn, experts discussed the potential applications of mobile health monitoring technology.
The Special Report includes comments from:
- Monique Levy, senior director of research at health care research firm Manhattan Research; and
- Shankar Sastry, dean of engineering at the University of California-Berkeley.
Experts say mobile health monitoring devices could change the way medicine is practiced by empowering people to take responsibility for personal health management (Gorn, iHealthBeat, 7/20).
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