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'10-Cent Medical Checkup' Using Cell Phones...Wow!

Students Strive to Develop '10-Cent Medical Checkup' Using Cell Phones - http://www.qmed.com/mpmn/medtechpulse/students-strive-develop-10-cent-medical-checkup-using-cell-phones

Bully for you CalTech Students!  :-)))))

I'd like to see more of the same from.... students all around the world...plus retirees....plus  underemployed talented people...plus engineers or scientists between jobs....plus Engineers Without Borders....Plus Doctors Without Borders....Plus Doctors, Nurses unhappy with current health methods....OK, I'll stop now....not give up, just stop for now....

Once we're on this roll.....how about having a wiki for open innovation in designing medical devices for the other 90% of the world - http://www.qmed.com/mpmn/article/little-can-go-long-way and http://www.designother90.org/cities/home

By the way....How about hooking this gizmo to Online Symptom Checker? Please see
Do It Yourself Doctoring – Wish List - http://tgideas.blogspot.com/2008/11/do-it-yourself-doctoring-wish-list.html

Low-Cost Mobile-Phone Stethoscope

I came across this article - Mobile phones offer heart lifeline- http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/160911.html

Reminded me right away of my Electronic Stethoscope and Analyzer for under $5.00 - http://tgideas.blogspot.com/2009/07/electronic-stethoscope-and-analyzer-for.html

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Tom sez - So, what's new? Looks like the idea of a home based heart monitor is indeed possible. Where do we go from here, folks?  Yes, one path is the usual where companies make it into a money making product, but.....

Here's a few ideas of what else might be done....

Take the two starts above, learn about the concepts therein, and design a cell phone that coincidentally can accurately hear heart sounds. Make the cell phone a cell phone and do not claim it can hear heart sounds. I'm not going to say why you would want to do this....but please just think of two objects....a pretty cell phone and then think of a medical device.

Maybe think of an adapter to a regular cell phone to enhance hearing ability, which coincidentally is particularly sensitive to heart sounds.

Launch these products in countries where they really need them....third world developing rural areas....then let them trickle back to the developed countries.

Start a wiki on this topic and let it be developed open source...similar to the open eeg project.

Write articles on how this could be done, so others can build on your work. Retired engineers come to life!

Find work to build on....libraries can help....post on Facebook or LinkedIn...."anyone working on a cheap cell phone device that is good for listening to heart sounds?  Collaborate all around the world.

See if there are some good open source heart sound diagnosis tools to couple the cell phone too.  Cell phone app?

Maybe expand your thinking to more than heart sounds....bowel sounds....pediatrics....etc.

Once you get this open innovation thinking going on the Affordable Home based Stethoscope....please keep it going for other low cost health devices....make a list and check it twice....

Good Luck!

Ideas for Medical Devices - Imagine, if you will, a "Little Black Bag" from the Future

Here's a brainstorming tool, if you're into Medical Device Innovation.  Please see below.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Black_Bag - ""The Little Black Bag" is a short story by science fiction author Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in the July, 1950 edition of Astounding Science Fiction."


Videos....
 From BBC - 

The Little Black Bag (1/3)

The Little Black Bag (2/3)

The Little Black Bag (3/3)

Original....

Tales of Tomorrow - The Little Black Bag (1/3)

Tales of Tomorrow - The Little Black Bag (2/3)

Tales of Tomorrow - The Little Black Bag (3/3)

Could "Interfacing with the Doctor Within" be viewed as a Star Trek Tricorder?

See "$10million prize offered to design a Star Trek tricorder" - http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-blogs/10million-prize-offered-to-design-a-star-trek-tricorder/39536/

After you have read that, then please see - "Interfacing with the Doctor Within" - http://doctor-within.blogspot.com/

It seems like the brain knows what's going on in the body....or we would have died out long time ago due to a simple cold, flu, or minor injury. By and large, the body heals itself.  How would it do that if it didn't know what needed fixing.  Why not tap into that knowledge base?

Who sez it can't be done?  I'm working on it.  I'm sure you can do much better though.  If interested, build on my work.  Have at it...and make yourself a bundle!

Good Luck to You!

For history of Tricorder, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder

Design Notes for Low-Cost Products

Here’s an ongoing index of my DESIGN NOTES FOR LOW-COST PRODUCTS for Low-Income People throughout the world - https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASxQMXIbYsLcZHN3eHE0a18zNWM5Znd4YzVz



Some uses for this might be....

• Brainstorming new products or services
• Research for low cost solutions
• Springboard to find more of the same
• History lesson of old patents
• Science Fair Projects

Good Luck!

Innovation and New Product Development in Do-It-Yourself Healthcare

Innovation and New Product Development in Do-It-Yourself Healthcare - 

Are you looking for new product or diversification ideas for your company, particularly in this economic recession? Well, there is a hidden gem out there that you might be able to cash in on – Do It Yourself Healthcare.

There is a growing trend in the world for this DIY Healthcare, partly out of need and partly because people want to be more active in their own healthcare. 

As a gauge of public interest, Google gives the following results:
Symptom Checker - 1,630,000 hits
Do It Yourself Health Doctor - 34,200,000 hits

The do-it-yourself movement is not new. Some examples of how this happened before are as follows....

http://www.brainreactions.com/innovation-and-new-product-development-in-do-it-yourself-healthcare.html

Tom's Writings - New Blog - News of all my writing and inventing

Hello All – FYI – I now have a news hub for all my writing and "virtual inventing" – Tom's Writings | TG Ideas LLC

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I’m off to a fresh start in my blogging. Stay tuned. I’m so excited to start writing, researching, inventing again. 

Best Wishes to you in your endeavors. 

Tom

1. Tom's Writings | TG Ideas LLC (Hub) – New Blog

2. Ideas for Products or Inventions

3. Do It Yourself Health Care

4. Health Information Your Doctor Might Not Even Know About....(Or Might Not Want You to Know About!) – New Blog

5. Interfacing with the Doctor Within

6. Mind-Body Healing Machines - formerly titled Virtual Healing Machine

7. Exploring Life As We Don't Know It – New Blog

8. Other Writings – Yahoo Voices, Helium, etc.