{"id":10873,"date":"2011-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/?p=10873"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T21:00:00","slug":"new-mobile-can-check-pulse-send-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/business\/2011\/02\/new-mobile-can-check-pulse-send-ambulance\/","title":{"rendered":"New mobile can check pulse, send ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BARCELONA, Feb 18, 2011 &#8211; You probably have good reason to worry if you get a call on your mobile phone with the following message: &quot;Sir, an ambulance is on the way.&quot;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\\&#8217;s the worst call you can receive if you buy a new EPI Life mobile phone, which comes complete with mini electrocardiogram.<\/p>\n<p>It\\&#8217;s a new phone developed in Singapore that takes your pulse when you press your fingers on a receptor, and sends the results to a 24-hour medical call centre.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We think it\\&#8217;s a revolution. It has clinical significance,&quot; EPI medical chief Dr. Chow U-Jin said at the mobile industry\\&#8217;s annual conference in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Anywhere in the world you can use it as a phone but you are also able to transfer an ECG and get a reply,&quot; Chow said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you get a normal reply it will just be an SMS,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If it\\&#8217;s severe, you get a call: \\&#8217;Sir, an ambulance is on the way\\&#8217;.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>EPI Life has three hospitals in Singapore, all of which carry the phone users\\&#8217; history.<\/p>\n<p>EPI Life costs $700 (516 euros), the price of a top range smartphone, and 2,000 of them have been on the market since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The most obvious targets are people with heart disease,&quot; Chow said.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your health or nervous disposition you can choose from three packages offering 10, 30 or 100 tests a month.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a mini $99 version with a smaller receptor that links via Bluetooth connection to your smartphone, which is due for launch soon in Spain and France.<\/p>\n<p>The EPI Life is one of a series of mobile health initiatives unveiled in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the services rely on SMS or MMS messages that even older mobiles can receive.<\/p>\n<p>Health Company, which covers Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, sends medical information about sexuality, obesity, children\\&#8217;s health etc. to about 430,000 customers in Arab and English.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You could also send a consultation through SMS,&quot; said company vice president Fahad S. Al-Orifi.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This SMS will go to our website where our doctor answers you to your mobile.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mobile health is developing in poorer countries where it can play a crucial role, said Kazi Islam, chief executive of Grameenphone in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>In his country there are 156 million people and fewer than 3,000 hospitals but 66 million people have access to a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Most women don\\&#8217;t have access to information of health. Seventy-five percent of women from 15 to 24 have never heard of STIs (sexually transmitted infections),&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;With a simple SMS we are sending information to expectant mothers. 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