Hello Dr, Ah, this is remarkable. I was never aware of these all developments happening in India . Thanks for the information.
All these ideas should go to the main stream usage, then we can see some real progress. Even a highly stripped down version of the DEBEL prototype can make a big difference. If we use a lot of automation and proper information management in Hospitals ( Define a proper workflow protocol) a lot of chaos can be eliminated completely. I hope the modern hospitals are using such systems (??). All govt ones looked like complete chaos to me! -Deepak On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Reji Rajan Varghese < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Deepak, > > Thanks for the informative mail with good link. > > I am much thrilled seeing your mail. The few thought you have suggested, I > think are the best examples and are the ones under development nowadays. I > am looking forward to meet a person like you. > > Here is my comments on your thought which you have enumerated > > 1. > > The smart card as you suggested is under development and implementation > under the health ministry under NHRM program. > http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/Presentations/Key_Smart_presentation.pps > 2. > > The remote monitoring system you have mentioned is being developed by > DEBEL, Banglore ( DRDO's Bioengineering Lab). I have seen this during my > visit. > > http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/jjbe/article/PIIS1350453307000975/abstract > > As you cited the example of diabetus, a glucose sensor is being > developmented by DR. Wayne D Flash. > > http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/wfrasch.php > > He came to Kochi for the international conferance in nanotechnology few > months back and had given a presentation on this. > 3. > > I have seen a prototype of the your idea for taking the image of the > eye and sending it for expert opinion in the IKMC conferance, Hyderabad > recently. The done by a group of mainly malayalees in banglore. There > company has one the price of 25 lakhs. > 4. > > Medical image processing is one my areas of special interest. As you > said there a lot variety of medical image which are used in diagnosis and > in > the treatment. Examples of the images include radiological images ( Xray, > Ultrasound, CT, MRI, etc), Pathological Images ( cytology, histopathology), > Opthalomological images and so on. Right now the algorithm is helping > mainly > for getting the image. For the image analysis and diagnosis is done mostly > by an doctor. For image analysis, segmentation, registration and computer > aided diagnosis the development in image processing can be made used. I > have > worked on algorithms for automatic segmentation of brain from MR images. > Medical imaging , medical image processing is the areas where I can help > the > most. > > > I think there could be lot more even in these problems one can > contribute. This is a very small list of the medical application of the > technology. I think you will find a lot of unmet needs of technology in > medicine if you look forward. > > I am from Ernakulam,and I am also searching similar minded individuals > from diverse disciplines. > > > With Thanks & Regards > > Dr. Reji > > mob: 9447104176 > > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Deepak Narayan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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