<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jaya Kumar</b> <<a href="mailto:jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com">jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Jan 2, 2008 12:56 AM
<br>Subject: Re: Devel Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2<br>To: Arjun Sarwal <<a href="mailto:arjun@laptop.org">arjun@laptop.org</a>><br>Cc: "devel Devel.List" <<a href="mailto:devel@lists.laptop.org">devel@lists.laptop.org
</a>>, Sameer Sawarkar <<a href="mailto:sameer.s@neurosynaptic.com">sameer.s@neurosynaptic.com</a>><br><br><br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Jan 1, 2008 5:10 PM, Arjun Sarwal <<a href="mailto:arjun@laptop.org">
arjun@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> ><br>> > There is a telemedicine kit from India for about $200, and there are<br>> > other possibilities. I have been encouraged by developments in blood<br>> > chemistry measurements that do not require a needle stick. The first
<br>> > such product is likely to be a diabetic blood sugar meter, but the<br>> > process applies to any small molecule with a distinctive spectrum.<br>> ><br>> > I also have friends in the medical software business. There is a Free
<br>> > Software implementation of the M language and the entire US Veterans<br>> > Administration/DoD hospital software system for medical records,<br>> > administration, pharmacy, and much more.<br>> >
<br>><br>> Glad to hear of these. Any one of these things can be developed/run<br>> around/on the XO ?<br><br></div></div>Hi Arjun,<br><br>I've CCed Sameer Sawarkar of Neurosynaptic. They have successfully<br>
built a remote low cost diagnostic kit ( I think it's called ReMeDi)<br>that can measure temperature, blood pressure, ECG and heartbeat<br>(stethoscope) and perform other tasks. It won a prize at the World<br>Economic Forum 2007. There was an article in businessweek here:
<br><br><a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/11/1129_tech_pioneers/source/22.htm" target="_blank">http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/11/1129_tech_pioneers/source/22.htm</a><br><br>I hope maybe XO and ReMeDi can, in someway, be complementary.
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