Smart Phone & future health care(wow! Just wow!)

[Are_grits_groceries]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/50582822#50582822

This could really revolutionize medicine.
Part of the medical establishment will fight it at all costs.

[onyourleft]

1. Thanks for...

...posting. I watched the entire segment. My feeling is that some of the innovations mentioned cannot get here soon enough.

[polly7]

2. That's awesome.

I'd like to see one of these in every EMS unit, too.

[justabob]

3. the vet I work for has and uses the ekg app on her iphone

It is very cool and super easy to use. It is limited (for now), but will certainly help a lot of people (and animals).

[ellenfl]

4. kick for later. eom

[backscatter712]

5. Between the sensor-equipped smartphones and the handheld ultrasound...

...we now have the medical tricorder from Star Trek.

Bones or Dr. Crusher just held their gadgets in their hands to scan patients - a handheld ultrasound is only different in that the doctor holds it in contact with you, and he can see your organs working in real-time.

For those of you with Android phones, here's an app that you can use to take your pulse and get a mini-cardiogram just by holding your finger over your phone's camera.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.modula.android.instantheartrate

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. You mean like this?

I think they've already got one of those over at St. God's.

[hootinholler]

8. Those are some bizarre icons

I'm having fun trying to decipher them. Like the electric boob one.

[a kennedy]

7. OMGosh......that is awesome