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Arto Holopainen's Forum Nokia Blog

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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...

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...

Using Nokia 5500 Sport for athlete's vital sign remote monitoring

There has been some time from my last blog entry. I have been working with very interesting cases and they have consumed totally my time. Now I’m on my summer holiday and I finally have time to unwrap some of my thoughts. I like to present you one exciting case with...

Feeling chest pain? Use your mobile to analyze your heart.

Coronary heart disease is by far the most common cause of death in many countries. For example, every few seconds someone in Europe is suffering of chest pain caused by an insufficient supply of blood to the heart. While a short-term oxygen scarcity usually origins angina pectoris , a...

Beyond iPhone: Symbian device human body control.

Have you ever imagined that when your mobile rings you could answer the call just by stretching you hand muscle or just by twinkling your eye? Well, this might not be so far in the future as you think. Actually it is already today’s (or should I say yesterday’s) technology. I have...

Mobile health care - wind of change...

Last year I wrote few thoughts from the Symbian Smartphone show 2006 and Medica 2006 regarding to mobile health care. Then I noticed that the industry as well as user attitudes are changing more acceptable for mobile device use in health management. This year at the same events it was clear from...

Visualize your heart condition using your mobile phone.

Blaise Pascal warned us that “The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” But what if someone’s heart starts acting up, and for reasons which a cardiologist might know and be able to remedy? As discussed in previous blog the fact is that coronary heart disease is...

Wireless pain monitoring

Pain is highly subjective to the individual experiencing it. A definition that is widely used in nursing was first given as early as 1968 by Margo McCaffery: "Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does". [Wikipedia] ...

Mobile eHealth seriously

I have been participating to interesting FN Bantora system as Forum Nokia Developer Advisor Council member. I thought to throw event to Bantora close to my heart (so to speak) that I’m also organizing: The 14th Finnish National Telemedicine and eHealth...

Geofencing in eHealth

Now that mobile phones with built-in GPS have become more common their usage possibilities for the eHealth has expanded accordingly. When you think of elder people living independently with dementia or child wanderers that might just take a walk and forget where...