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Wireless Based Disease ManagementProduct Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: Wireless Healthcare Published: June 2007 Product Code: R3550-2 Description Wireless Based Disease Management
In 1854 the physician John Snow showed that cholera was transmitted from person to person via a germ contained in water rather than being contracted by breathing ‘bad air’. Snow collected data on instances of cholera in the Soho area of London. Using this data he drew up a map of the disease, which indicated that the epicentre of the outbreak was a pump on Broad Street from which victims collected drinking water. So began the science of epidemiology. Today major IT companies are developing applications that are capable of creating complex models of the diseases that pose a threat in the twenty-first century. Some applications are based on genomics and use genetic data to assess the individual’s vulnerability to a particular disease. Modern communication technology provides a wide range of powerful tools that take no more than a few seconds to carry out the type of analysis that took John Snow several months. However, many modern diseases are global in nature, and an epidemic or disease modelling application used in just one country is of little practical use in monitoring the spread of AIDS or influenza. Similarly, an application based in the offices of a global healthcare organisation will be of little use if individual countries are unwilling to export patient data. There are alternatives to the centralised model. Health is one of the most popular enquiries on search engines, resulting in computer users around the world providing Google with tacit medical information. While, currently, this information is for the most part unusable, as search engines become more sophisticated and their owners extend their reach into other sectors of the information technology market, global healthcare based search services could provide a platform for epidemiology and disease modelling applications. Such systems could play a role in modelling afflictions that are not related to genetic factors and help manage psychosomatic based diseases. Regardless of which deployment model prevails, wireless devices will play a key role in the collection of data and the delivery of healthcare information. The wireless device can provide a personalised connection, and it will also be the wireless, rather than wire line, network that eventually provides global reach. This report examines a range of epidemic and disease monitoring and modelling technologies and identifies key trends in this market. It also considers the relative merits of the centralised ‘top down’ and the distributed ‘bottom up’ deployment models and the opportunities each route to market creates for wireless device and medical software vendors. Table of Contents
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