Your Living Room is your future Hospital !!
no need to leave your living room to get health services.the simplified technology can be operated by parents themselves.
After ear infections, a skin rash is the second leading reason for pediatric visits. if you have cell scope and dermatoscope attached to your smart phone, any parent can take the pictures of ear drum and skin lesion and send those images to their family doctor and know the treatment by return SMS/ Mail.
A $20 Stethoscope Attachment for a Smartphone to Diagnose Pneumonia
early diagnosis of an overlooked childhood killer: pneumonia, by Using a specially designed microphone called a “stethomic” that plugs into the smartphone’s audio jack and an app that guides users through the proper method for listening to a patient’s breathing, shows promising at accurately detecting the disease.Retail Clinics and Telemedicine. like any retail shops,chain of clinics will be commissioned by companies and they will use telemedicine to provide specialty care even in remote areas
Could a mirror tell us how healthy we are?
measure our heart rate at a distance? Sure, it could. And it has already been demonstrated as a concept prototype (Cardiocam, MIT media labs, Poh et al. 2010), although the designer is now focusing on mobile devices (check his company Cardiio).
What other health metrics could be performed by the mirror during your regular morning hygiene routine? If a camera can measure minute changes in the color of your face to determine your heart rate, it could also measure your facial expressions and emotions or perform observational analysis
Prototypes for computerized facial diagnostic systems already have been developed.
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