M-HEALTHMobile for healthy society

Presented by- Harsha S. Nitish J Prabhu

INTRODUCTION Recent advances in mobile technology have

opened up enormous opportunities to improve patients’ health and well-being.

m-Health technologies offer real-time monitoring and detection of changes in health status.

User-friendly wireless consumer device like phones provide not only mobile communication, but also sensing.

Sensors embedded in a mobile phone can provide an unprecedented view of the person’s health status and behavior patterns.

It has the potential to turn mobile devices into personal labs.

Mobile phones reach further into developing countries than otherTechnology and health infrastructures.

Survey: Mobile phones v/s Population

• World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2006 - Working Together for Health (Geneva: WHO, 2006).• Units in million

FEATURES OF M-HEALTH To reach its potential, m-Health

technology must be able to capture diverse personal and environmental signals.

Researchers are repurposing a variety of sensors already included in mobile phones applications.

Bio-molecular sensing, imaging are particularly important.

BIO-MOLECULAR SENSING:   With their high selectivity, ultra sensitivity, and

energy efficiency, solid-state sensors can turn a common smartphone into a powerful and easy-tousle diagnostic tool.

---Nanowire sensors can detect the presence of specific molecules.

---DNA microarrays can capture the epigenetic information necessary to understand the protein-DNA interactions.

---Low-power chemical sensors which resistive sensing of trace gases.

IMAGING: Passive and active imaging methods such as

ultrasound, x-rays, MRI, and CT scans are mainstays of modern healthcare.

Cameras are the only imaging devices widely available in a mobile environment

For imaging to scale in health, it must move beyond the current human in- the-loop.

This can be implemented by Radio frequency imaging which is an attractive option for smartphones.

IN-BUILT DATABASE APPS

MOBILE COMPUTING FOR M-HEALTH Current mobile operating systems offer sophisticated network

communications. 

The core components of this service can be grouped based on the roles involved in the m-health process.

The steps or roles are:

Bio-data catching

Bio-data gathering and management  Knowledge extraction and decision support

E-health service platform

Bio-data catching : This service begins by periodically or randomly gathering input.

Bio-data gathering and management: Huge amount of bio data is supposed to be gathered and handled.

Knowledge extraction and decision support: Once a large amount of bio data has been accumulated, knowledge extraction and decision support for diagnosis are possible using data mining technology.

E-health service platform: Bio data capturing, storing, managing, and analysis modules that can be shared among mobile e-health services.

SCHEMETIC REPRESENTATION

APPLICATIONS:

Diabetes

• Enables regular checking of sugar level.

Heart

• Checks the heart beat of the individual.• Controls the cholesterol by regular

examination.

Eye Testing

• Checks the pointing

ADVANTAGES: Health happens when you are on the move

whether it’s for a physician, clinical or patient. Can improve patients’ health condition by

enabling the physician to frequently keep track of their patients.

m-health has dramatically reduce the cost of visiting nurse or doctor with its services.

Helping in boosting social network availability for a doctors to reach out and connect to people in different locations.

It can reduce the pressure on overburdened hospitals, clinics and medical professions.

Increase the gross domestic products through more health care related employment.

DIS-ADVANTAGES:

Not all people use smartphones or even a computer for contacting through mails.

Another big disadvantages of this is privacy of the patients health information.

Security is also a bigger issue when there is potential for anyone to tap the information of the mobile phones.

Perception towards m-Health may vary with doctors and patients with its cost effective use.

CONCLUSION Health systems herald an exciting new era in health with

a shifting focus of healthcare to wellness and prevention.

These devices also portend a transformed health research environment, where most data is collected remotely and entire clinical trials might be run without the researcher and the participant ever meeting face to face.

The data from these systems will also create a rich database for exploring new ways of understanding health.

m-Health’s success will, therefore, depend on trans-disciplinary research collaboration among computing engineering, and medical researchers.

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Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, “Mobile Devices Roundtable: Safeguarding Health Information,”

F. Patolsky and C.M. Lieber, “Nanowire Nanosensors,” Materials Today, Apr. 2005.

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