mercredi 6 août 2014

Device Lets Doctors Remotely Diagnose Malaria Using Standard Cell Phones

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Remote diagnostics is an emerging field that allows healthcare workers to perform tests on patient samples in the field and to get results interpreted by medical experts remotely. This is a groundbreaking approach to providing affordable healthcare to patients in some of the world’s poorest countries.


Providing healthcare in this way, though, often means using expensive equipment, supplying extensive training and getting access to relatively developed telecommunications infrastructure. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Aug. 5, we present a device that has the potential to overcome these challenges. Read more...


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