在日前于美国加州举行的MEMS开发者大会(MEMS Executive Congress)，高通生命公司(Qualcomm Life Inc.)全球策略与市场开发副总裁Donald Jones指出，透过手机应用程序(app)进行监控的可穿戴式医疗传感器(包括像Band-Aid的拋弃式智能贴片)出现，正象征着大型传统医疗设备步入终结的时代开始。
Jones说：“我们开始看到医疗设备正逐渐消失中，机器本身将不复存在。”
Donald Jones在一场题为“移动设备与健康/健身的未来”(Mobile and the Future of Health and Wellness)的主题演讲中指出，未来将出现数十种可将智能型手机与平板电脑转变为医疗诊断工具的穿戴式配件与仪控贴片，更多的相关产品应用也正开发 中。他预测，到2017年时，针对医疗保健与健身的可穿戴式传感器每年将超过1.7亿只。
高通生命公司致力于结合涵盖医疗诊断与治疗领域的所有穿戴设备合作伙伴，共同支持整个生态系统。Jones说：“高通生命公司致力于开发病患可用的医疗设备。而目前也已经有足够的医疗电子配件让你能透过智能手机来进行一个完整的身体健康检查。”
无论病患在哪里，Sotera Wireless公司的Visi Mobile平台都能为其进行一家医院中所有的监测功能
Source：Soterauusesmc
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第2页：打造移动医疗检验中心，能让病患变成自己的医生
第3页：病人可通过App寻求合格的专科医师
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高通公司并提供1千万美元赞助在Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize竞赛中胜出的Star Trekmedical扫描仪开发，它可用于执行实时的医疗诊断。世界各地的几十支团队正致力于开发出一款可诊断15种疾病以及记录与传送重要健康数据的手持设备。Jones以位于 NASA-Ames Research Park的Scanadu公司为例表示，该公司已开发出首款可测量血氧浓度、心雷图、压力、心率、体温、脉搏波传导时间等多种健康指针的三度仪(tricorder)。
Jones说：“经由为病患打造一个移动医疗检验中心，我们能让病患变成自己的医生，”
高通生命公司并致力于提供一种新的医疗检测架构── HealthyCircles ，将移动医疗测量设备连接至云端，并进行多变量分析。HealthyCircles计划提供一种软件即服务的模式，透过一种整合、可存取的互通性系统，让 医疗保健专业人员、照护人员及其系统得以和病患及其家庭连接在一起，在远程进行监控以及管理用药与进食等。
Dexcom G4血糖监测系统可持续提供血糖值读数。
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第3页：病人可通过App寻求合格的专科医师
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Jones 列举了在这一领域的其它趋势。在医生开处方的应用方面，医生开始建议病患可下载应用程序(如用于运动和减轻压力等app)在家中使用。而在app提供就诊建议方面，应用程序可先进行初步诊断，然后针对病因建议病患寻求合格的专科医师。然后，病人可以使用像ZocDoc这一类的app搜寻相关领域的专业医师，并直接预约看诊时间。
iRhythm推出的Zio XT贴片可连续14天记录心律，以确认是否有心律不整的现象。
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最后，Jones说，如同Googles Helpouts的线上服务很快地将可提供直接与医护人员进行线上对谈的视讯服务，让病患能舒服地坐在家中的摇椅上接受医师的诊断与治疗。
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编译：Susan Hong
参考英文原文：Qualcomm's Tricorder X-Prize: Mobile Redefining Medicine，by R. Colin Johnson
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Qualcomm's Tricorder X-Prize: Mobile Redefining Medicine
R. Colin Johnson
PORTLAND, Ore. — Wearable medical sensors monitored with an app -- including disposable smart patches applied like a Band-Aid -- mark the beginning of the end for bulky, traditional medical instruments, Donald Jones, vice president of global strategy and market development at Qualcomm Life Inc., said at last week's MEMS Executive Congress in Napa, Calif.
"We are starting to see the disappearance of the medical device," Jones said. "The machine itself will be gone."
In his presentation, "Mobile and the Future of Health and Wellness," he described dozens of wearable accessories and instrumented patches that turn smartphones and tablets into medical diagnostic tools, with more on the way. He predicted that, by 2017, wearable sensors for health and wellness will surpass 170 million units per year.
Qualcomm Life is supporting the effort by putting together a ecosystem of partners covering all aspects of wearables for medical diagnosis and treatment. "At Qualcomm Life, we are committed to medical devices for patients to use. There are already enough accessories that you can do a complete physical exam with a smartphone."
Sotera Wireless' Visi Mobile performs all the monitoring functions of a hospital for patients, no matter where they are located.
(Source: Sotera)
Qualcomm is also sponsoring the Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize -- with a $10 million purse -- modeled on the famous Star Trek medical scanner that performed instant medical diagnoses. Dozens of teams worldwide are working to create a handheld device that can diagnose 15 diseases and record and transmit key health metrics. Jones cited Scanadu, headquartered at the NASA-Ames Research Park, as one of the entrants offering the first serious tricorders measuring blood oxygen levels, electrocardiogram, stress, heart rate, body temperature, blood oxygen level, pulse wave transit time, and more.
"By giving the patient a handheld lab, we are turning the patient into a doctor," he said.
Qualcomm is also working to provide the infrastructure to connect mobile health measurement devices to the cloud for multi-variable analytics. Its HealthyCircles venture provides a software-as-a-service model that connects healthcare professionals, caregivers, and their systems to patients and their families in an integrated, accessible, and interoperable system that monitors and manages treatment regimes remotely.
Dexcom G4 glucose monitoring system provides continuous
readout of blood sugar levels.
(Source: Dexcom)
Jones cited other trends in this field. In "doctors prescribing apps," doctors have started advising their patients to download apps (for things like exercise and stress reduction) and use them at home. In "apps prescribing doctors," the app makes a preliminary diagnosis and then recommends the kind of specialist qualified to treat the malady. The patient can then use an app like ZocDoc to browse doctors with that speciality and book an appointment.
The Zio XT patch from iRhythm continuously records heart rhythms for up to 14 days to identify arrhythmias.
(Source: iRhythm)
Finally, Jones said online services like Google's Helpouts will soon offer online video chats with healthcare professionals to help diagnose and treat maladies from the comfort of your easy chair.
