[Peripherals] [Tele]Health Update

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi all,

As Ian said i'm working  in a  EKG prototype  with the assistance of  a
professor and alumni of my uni,
The process has been stoped due to intersemestral vacations but we have a
working prototype, although we still need a lot of improvements.

So i guess in two weeks or so we will continue with the development.

I hope soon, i can upload the footprint of the prototype, and all the
related info.

Cheers!

On Jan 1, 2008 12:36 PM, Ian Daniher <it.daniher at gmail.com> wrote:

> There has, in the past few months, been a surge of interest in health and
> telehealth applications for the XO.
> My own efforts have been focused on telehealth hardware and software
> intended for use in scenarios where medical facilities are available but man
> hours to manually screen individuals is not. This is a scenario faced in
> many large third-world cities in addition to refuge camps.
> Codyl and Dirakx have been assisting; Codyl handling the micro-controller
> part, Dirakx working with a Columbian team to develop an EKG.
>
> I have designed a Pulse Oximeter based heavily on a communications
> photodiode instrumentation amplifier. I have started prototyping over
> Christmas break.
>
> I am working with Dirakx and Dr. Dhurjaty to design and prototype an EKG
> unit providing valuable diagnostic information about Arrythmia.
>
> Both of these devices will also provide valuable pedagogical resources.
>
>
> I have designed a server-client infrastructure of the following form for
> the THPM activity(telehealth parameterized activity):
> A GTK+/PyGTK based gui feeds information into a program which creates an
> XML document via PXTL XML templating.
> This XML file is uploaded to a server running an httpd and ftpd using the
> ftplib python module, along with images in a .jpg format and waveforms in a
> .wav format.
> The program creates a folder on the server of the following form
> /www
> /username
> /time
> /health.xml
> /image_of_affected_bodypart1.jpg
> /image_of_affected_bodypart2.jpg
> /pulseox.wav
> /stethescope_and_audio.wav
> /ekg.wav
> /health.css
>
> From this structure, a doctor can access a webpage from the url format:
> http://server/username/time/health.xml
> The XML file will be rendered by a CSS file in the root web directory.
>
>
> The THM(TeleHealth Module) activity will use code similar to the measure
> code to record and then display waveforms inputted via a USB Analog to
> Digital Converter.
>
>
> In addition to all this, there has been a movement to convert the .pdf
> Hesperian foundation work *Where There is No Doctor* into [x]html. Pascals
> has been heading up this work.
>
>
> Anyone interested in contributing, feel free to contact me via any of the
> below means.
> Many thanks,
>
> --
> Ian Daniher
> it.daniher at gmail.com
> Skype : it.daniher
> irc.freenode.com: DyDisMe
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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
One Laptop Per Child
rafael at laptop.org
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