More and more hospitals and research centers are devoting a tremendous more money and time in the emerging field of mobile health care. Physicians are now studying the possibilities of diagnosing injuries, sickness and diseases from photo's sent via a cell phone. Imagine an injured mountain climber able to take a photo of his injury and transmit it to a health care professional, who is a thousand miles away, while he waits for a rescue team. The medical personnel can examine, diagnosis the injury and instruct the rescue team or even the injured climber what treatment is needed to save a limb or even his life.
A ambulance arrives to an accident scene and the EMT needs some immediate medical advice on a badly injured car accident victim. The EMT can broadcast the patients situation via a high definition web cam to a nearby hospital with mobile health care. This can allow the doctor to walk through the on-site EMT through medical treatments that could save a life. Or a doctor is mobile on-site and needs a health care reference or a patients medical history. With Mobile health care, this is available at their fingertips through the doctor's laptop or cellular phone.
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