Hi Indeed great to see that there is movement here and we have some possible visions but I would also like to clarify if a whole OS is needed for this space.
I can see the need for such accessibility for patients but would our involvement be to bridge the sensor data and information securely between doctors and patients? BR Wilfred - > On 6 Nov 2015, at 07:10, Kumar Rishav <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > It's really a great project. Many old aged or house bound patients will get > benefited by this. > So, this will be dedicated operating system for them, and will be completely > related to medical related areas. > > It's nice to be a part of this project. > > Thanks > >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Kevin Hu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, everyone, >> >> I am excited to share this with all of you. We started another academy >> program for Firefox OS weeks ago. The plan is to implement a general >> operating system for medical usages. >> >> With the aging population worldwide, there has been a rapid increase in >> dependent patients who are either bed or house bound. Although there are >> lots of medical mobile apps on the shelf to provide personal medical >> information, analysis, or even some simple monitoring functionalities, these >> applications are used on current complicated operating systems that most >> aging patients may have difficulties to use. >> >> The target audience for this project focuses on the patients / users who >> would like to have a centralized place for all medical apps, and who are not >> familiar with existed complicated mobile operating systems. An operating >> system with simple and friendly user interface to these target audience is >> expected. We will also try to optimize Firefox OS to be able to retrieve >> monitoring data from 3rd party medical devices or other related IOT devices >> constantly. >> >> We are planning to modify existed system app to match the expectation. The >> project is in the beginning stage now. We are working with graduated school >> of computer science department in National Central University in Taiwan, >> some doctors in Taiwan and also a doctor, Dr. Tan Jit-Seng, in Singapore in >> this project. Dr. Tan was a doctor in Singapore, and now leading a company >> to provide personal elder health care services. His company was published on >> the front page of local newspaper, because he always try to integrate new >> technologies into medical industry and provide personal elder-care. He is >> also working with Microsoft and MIT in different projects. >> >> I will keep updating the project Wiki here, >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/MedicalPlatformProject >> For more information, please visit the page above. >> >> Please let me know if you are interested in this project. Suggestions and / >> or comments are always welcome. Thank you. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> Kevin Hu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > > > -- > Kumar Rishav > Mozilla Representative - ReMo Mozilla Reps > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
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