Pioneering New Uses for Cell Phones
A short news item in the latest issue of Promise of Berkeley, titled Can You Heal Me Now?, mentions two innovative uses for cell phones in medicine and public health.
Professor Boris Rubinsky and his team created “a simple, easy-to-operate data acquisition device” and showed how a cell phone “could transmit the raw data to a remote computer to create a medical image” for viewing and analysis.
Meanwhile, on the same campus, Professor Daniel Fletcher and his team have “developed a powerful microscope that clips to a cell phone.” They’ve named it the CellScope. The aim is to use the CellScope to help health-care workers — even those with little training — diagnose diseases.
Source
University of California, Berkeley, Promise of Berkeley, Winter 2009 issue, p. 17.
