M-HELP: a miniaturized total health examination system launched on a mobile phone platform.
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2013-10-29
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BACKGROUND A timely health examination is of great significance for incipient disease detection and prevention However conventional examinations generally rely heavily on bulky and expensive instrumentation which is not easily available To address technical barriers an innovative highly miniaturized and integrated health examination system Mobile Health Examination Launched on the Phone M HELP was developed MATERIALS AND METHODS Based on the design of a multifunctional Android Google Mountain View CA application and the development of different wireless biomedical sensor modules a mobile phone was incorporated into a central terminal for personal health examination More than 12 parameters including electrocardiogram heart sound and eye test as well as others covered the majority of the crucial parameters in a total health examination and have been successfully established and incorporated into the system Unlike the conventional examination the M HELP system could generate electronic health records and send them to physicians via e mails or multimedia messages This significantly simplifies the general health examination with much lower cost and fewer temporal and spatial restrictions RESULTS For proof of concept a bench scale test recruiting 11 volunteer subjects showed that the average time spent on a total health examination with M HELP system was about 28 min CONCLUSIONS This article clarifies the basic concept of a total health examination on the platform of a mobile phone demonstrates the basic features of the M HELP system with group tests and suggests the practical future application of the new system and the scientific issues thus raised
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Facility-based health worker, Access to information or data, Unnecessary referrals and transportation, Efficiency, Pilot, Functionality, Preventive, Disease prevention, Data collection and reporting, Electronic health records, Internet, MMS, Raw data, Physiologic Biosensors, Biometric identifiers, Digital protocol