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January 17, 2008, 01:19 PM ET
Turning Cellphones Into Health Aids With Microsoft Money
The phone doctor is in. Microsoft Research, the software company’s laboratory, just awarded $1-million in grants to university researchers to develop the cellphone into a heathcare device. Ten institutions will split the money.
Here are some examples of winning projects: University of Pittsburgh researchers intend to develop a cellphone that doubles as a wearable electrocardiograph. It could produce cardio health reports and automatically detect symptoms associated with heart disease.
New York University faculty members are joining the West Africa AIDS Foundation to create a phone that can track the distribution and consumption of HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa.
University of California at Berkeley scientists plan to turn a cellphone camera into a high-quality microscope. It could help patients without easy access to doctors by sending diagnostic images to those physicians.
Athens University School of Economics and Business researchers are creating GPS-enabled cellphones that track the daily routines of elderly people, to spot disruptions that might be signs of illness or injury. You can read more about Microsoft’s ideas about phones in healthcare here. —Josh Fischman
Categories: Research
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