October 25, 2004
Mobile aid for diabetes patients
Mobile phones are being used to try to make the lives of people with diabetes easier by high-speed data transfer, reports the BBC.
"A team in Oxford, UK, is using mobiles to record and organise information from patients, and to send it directly to a hospital for rapid analysis and advice.
The team says the Oxford experiment may open the way for mobiles to be used to manage several other chronic diseases.
The trial is featured in Health Matters, a film in the Earth Report series made by Television Trust for the Environment and shown on BBC News 24, BBC One and BBC World.
The film examines new ideas to save lives and improve health, especially in countries which cannot afford decent medical care.
Related article:
-- Gluconet monitors diabetes by Text messaging - To facilitate transmission of glucose information between patients and physicians, France Telecom uses the Orange GSM cellular network to send data to a secure server that contains patient files.
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