Dear Dr, Nice to see you on the list! :).
I have been thinking in the same lines for a while now. Putting technology in the right place can revolutionize medical practice in here. A few thoughts, 1. Smartcard based patient information system. The consultation begins with the Dr swiping the smart card on a reader and the entire medical history can be checked using a PC application. This can be integrated to a hospital information system. You can also store prescriptions in the smartcard. Every registered patient of the hospital gets a card 2. A remote monitoring (multimonitor)system for patients who require continuous care but not bedridden. Eg: Diabetes patients. The solution will be a handheld device which can connect to a hospital server over the internet. The device can have a GPRS connection or it can connect to the home internet connection over wifi. The patient can send the blood sugar readings (the device can integrate to a glucometer or any kind of meter) to the doctor and Dr analyzes that on a patient information system. The dr can push prescriptions , send reminders etc through the machine. May be the machine can store all the health records too. See an example here , http://www.logicpd.com/solutions/medical http://www.logicpd.com/our-work (check the handheld device in the photo, that runs Linux- i think Android) 3. Automated quick first level diagnosis. eg: in a opthalmic hospital, the photo of the eye is taken and the machine can determine which dept should the patient be referred to. There can be an error rate in this, but again it gets corrected in the 2nd level when the Dr sees the patient.I think some ophthal hospitals have already implemented this system see this comps offerings : http://www.acropetal.com/health_care.htm 4. Small devices like Pulse Oximetry sensors. Semiconductor companies like Texas Instruments have a single chip solution for this http://focus.ti.com/docs/solution/folders/print/330.html 5. Medical image processing using cloud computing infrastructure. There is a lot of research going on in this image processing domain which analyzes scans to automatically find out tumors etc. But most of these algorithms are too computationally intensive that they take weeks to process the data. https://wiki.thayer.dartmouth.edu/display/nir/NIRFAST There is some good research taking place in IISc bangalore. There can be a lot of such ideas if we do a brainstorming. The market is huge and there is a social responsibility factor is enormous. My brother is a Dr so i do have some conversations with him on these. I has been searching for some similar minded individuals nearby. Thanks for reading. -Deepak http://deepak.dk <http://focus.ti.com/docs/solution/folders/print/330.html> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Reji Rajan Varghese <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi, > > Nice to hear about "the heart beat and pacemaker" in the linux based > application. I would be happy to answer a medical related doubt or any help > if some body is interested in developing any medical related application. > > I think in most cases you have a technology / software / hardware solution > , you may be able to find a medical application if you work on it. If > anybody is thinking in this direction, I would like to help you. Iam from > Ernakulam. > > If you look at a hospital you can see that most of the treatment modality > has its orgin from diverse discipline. If you look at a CT Scan machine, it > evolved from the X ray machine by the implemenation of a mathematical > concept “the radon transform”. This is just an example. You can start doing > it in simple way. I mean you can think about modifying say your linux > application for a medical need. > > > With Regards > > Dr. Reji > > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, unni krishnan > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Reji, >> >> No, they are purely Linux based applications used to create high >> availability cluster. >> >> http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Main_Page >> http://linux-ha.org/ >> >> Happy to know that there is a doctor in this list, so now I can ask >> biological doubts also in this list :-) >> >> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Reji Rajan Varghese >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi unni, >> > >> > I am a Medical doctor using ubantu. I am just curious seeing your mail. >> > >> > Are you taking about the biological heartbeat and the biomedical device >> “the >> > pacemaker” ? Or these are some other technicall stuff? >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Dr. Reji >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:01 PM, unni krishnan < >> [email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am currently working on a high availability setup with heartbeat + >> >> pacemaker + drbd + ocfs2 >> >> >> >> For ocsf2 I have lot of doubts since I am new to cluster file systems. >> >> Is there anyone who already worked/researched in cluster file systems >> >> like ocfs2 or gfs, so that I can talk directly. >> >> >> >> Its not possible to ask it through this list, because there are bunch >> >> of doubts :-) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Unni >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List >> >> http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ >> >> >> http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >> >> #[email protected] >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List >> > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ >> > >> http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >> > #[email protected] >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Unni >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List >> http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ >> http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >> #[email protected] >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > -- http://blog.deepak.dk/
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