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Arto Holopainen's Forum Nokia Blog

Category: Healthcare

Using Symbian devices for telemedicine and eHealth

I take this opportunity with Forum Nokia blog and discuss about harnessing Symbian devices for telemedicine and eHealth purposes. For those whom telemedicine and eHealth are strange words: Telemedicine (defined by medterms.com ) : The use of...

Connectivity with medical POC devices, background

Bluetooth has finally found its way to medical devices as well (especially POC, Point-Of-Care). There are still lot of measurement devices out that just gives the measurement result to the device screen, no connections to outside world whatsoever. Then majority of devices that has output...

Connectivity with medical POC devices, bluejacking?

What does bluejacking to do with medical measurement devices? Let’s take closer look for the case where measurement device is active in creating connection to other device to deliver measurement results. In this case device functioning is as follows: After person has...

Symbian and smart monitoring of human motion

With the release of Nokia 5500, there has been lot of discussion how to utilize the integrated motion sensor. This integrated sensor is excellent for certain type of applications but would it be better not just to monitor phone motion but the actual person muscle activity and other bio-signals?...

Symbian device control using muscle activity - a case study

My previous blog “ Symbian and smart monitoring of human motion ” seemed to inspire a lot of people, so I decided to go deeper into this subject. In this blog I present a real world working case for controlling your mobile using your muscles. Case setup:...

Using smart phones as medical image viewers for teleradiology and teleneurosurgery

The idea of using smart phones as tool for teleradiology (and teleneurosurgery) has existed as long there has been smart phones (from the first greyscale-display Nokia Communicators). Of course the device displays, communication and data processing speeds have not been adequate for...

Enhancing self-care and personal health monitoring with smart phones

Imagine the case where your doctor has prescribed you to take e.g. blood pressure measurements at home regularly for some time period. You should write down all the measurement results and bring the result log to the doctor after monitoring period. Ok, you take the measurements and...

Symbian device control using muscle activity - a case study part 2

In my previous blog " Symbian device control using muscle activity - a case study " I assumed that the reader is familiar with my older blog postings and I did not explain the motivation for muscle control case study. I encountered questions about the rationality of...

Thoughts from the Smartphone show: Healthcare with mobile devices, bird or fish?

I visited the Smartphone in London and it was very interesting event indeed. Along with the device manufacturers, there was good cross-section of companies working with the main stream applications. For my surprise there was even one healthcare related application (ECG...

Using smart phones for preventing acute mountain sickness while maximizing high altitude training

Thinking outside-the-box again… Have you ever thought that smart phones could be used as an excellent tool to prevent altitude sickness while maximizing training performance? Here I will present a case that describes how all this is achieved . First some background to the...

Your mobile monitoring when you are at sleep? A Case study how smart phone can be used to determine tendency for sleep apnea.

Ever thought that your bio-signals could be monitored when you are at sleep? This is another interesting case where your mobile can bring great help and simplicity to everyday health problems. Sleep apnea, as the case here, can be defined as public health problem (more commonly present on men...

Status of mobile health care in medical industry: an overview from one of the world's largest medical fair

I attended the Medica 2006 fair (International Trade Fair with Congress World Forum for Medicine) on 15 th to 18 th November. It was so exhausting to see 17 really big exhibition halls full of different medical related “things” ranging from software to equipment that I...

Smart phones saving lives at the disaster sites?

Let’s imagine situation where there has been big accident or some natural disaster like hurricane. There could be many injured people around and paramedics/rescuing personnel trying to retrieve as much of information from injured vital sings as quickly as possible. Could smart phones be...

Using Nokia 5500 internal accelometer as a fall sensor

It has been studied that falls are one of the leading causes of fatal and nonfatal injuries to older people. This leads to case where fear of falling forces many otherwise healthy persons to leave their own home to live in an assisted-care environment. The fear of falling has been studied by...

Enter to the next level of mobile gaming experience

There has been quite a lot of discussion related to exergaming (games that also provide exercise- Wikipedia ). Especially Nintendo Wii with wireless accelometer based gesture controller has been in spotlight. I have been presenting another view to this subject with the idea of...