near-Future innovations in personal health

Posted 25 June, 2007 in future tech

Many EMR vendors, like RemedyMD, offer a web-based “patient portal” (e.g. MyHealthManager), which provides a handy interface for recording daily meals, activities, blood pressure, weight, glucose levels, etc. The screens are intuitive enough for the computer novice to master while remaining feature-rich for the power-users.

The problem is one of diligence. For the ADD-afflicted (such as myself), it’s hard to remember to daily chronicle my weight or calories consumed, so I find myself backdating entries, feverishly (and inaccurately) attempting to recall the events of past days.

Those times of difficultly might be soon over. It’s just a matter of time before a host of wireless devices are linked up to an intelligent and user-friendly patient portal. When they are within range, these wireless devices transmit back data to your PC which data is consequently uploaded to the web. Then, periodically you (or your physician) can review the much-more-useful data.

Wireless healthcare devices that are/soon-will-be available include:

• Scale
• Pedometer
• Meters for:
  • Blood Pressure
  • Body temperature
  • Glucose
  • Blood/oxygen levels
  • BMI/Body Fat %

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