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Applications for phones and tablets guard chronic patients to help physicians and patients

21/05/2013

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Market promises to move the equivalent of R$ 4 billion in Latin America in 2017, with the largest share of Brazil second advisory
 
RIO - Who thinks that technology only evolved towards surgeons robots of science fiction may be surprised to know that the great revolution of telemedicine is in a mobile phone handset. The interaction between doctor and patient has gained momentum after the mobile device has become universal among Brazilians, and smartphones go to the same popularity. The market for medical applications for mobile devices, which also includes tablets, promises to move the equivalent of R $ 4 billion just in Latin America in 2017, where Brazil has the largest share, according to projections by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Thousand times more powerful than the Apollo 11
At the beginning of the era of telemedicine, the computer that operated the Apollo 11 mission, which took man to the moon in 1969, had a thousand times less processing power than the current smartphone market. Only in the Apple App Store, it is estimated that there are 25,000 applications related to the control of health and wellness, as "nannies" electronic resembling the time of the remedy, or more sophisticated, such as storing indexes blood pressure, glucose, heart rate or calorie consumption for the doctor to assess the patient's behavior in real time.

USP professor, Chao Lung Wen, president of the Brazilian Telemedicine and Telehealth, explains that, through phones which are able to inform (a geotag), develops a tendency to use data from mobile to indicate, for example, Epidemic dynamics and characteristics of behavior.

- The real telemedicine will be in your pocket. The robotic operation is an exception - summarizes Wen.

In the same report on the market called m-health, Pricewaterhouse Coopers estimates that the market for mobile health services jump of the estimated $ 9 billion this year to $ 23 billion in 2017. In the version of a company report, emerging markets like Brazil are fertile environments for patients to be less resistant to the adoption of this technology, as well as physicians.

Carlos Suslik, management consultant physician and health consultant, explains the need for mobile applications in the medical field comes to the part of humanity that won the longevity and left to suffer threat vectors and parasites. Today the villains are chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.

- For chronic diseases, where there is hereditary components and there is no cure, the most important is the change of habits, from which arises the usefulness of the development of medical applications - Suslik explains.

The retired Haruiko Hayakawa is a generation of Brazilians described by Suslik. A resident of São Paulo, at age 72 Haruiko measures three times a week the level of blood sugar. About to enter under adult diabetes three months ago his doctor prescribed monitoring. No chance to fool with the numbers or forget them at query time, the retiree sees the results leave the glucose meter directly to a tablet, and from there, to the physician who meets him:

- I have not changed my routine meals yet, but now I know that when I eat a chocolate, the glucose level increases dramatically.

Prescription applications
The biomedical Renato Sabbatini, one of the founders of the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics, follows the evolution of medical applications and the fact that, in Europe and the U.S., a growing number of physicians, the prescription sheet, revenue applications beyond medicine. Sabbatini says that 15% of patients with diseases in the U.S. are the wave of the "quantified self" in that store and share on mobile platforms symptoms and indices of vital signs.

- In the U.S., there are already health insurance companies to assess the price of services according to the information of the patient's symptoms, the same way they calculate the value of car insurance according to the history of the driver. One who is sedentary and does not provide the power have to pay more.

Service
GlicOnLine: Application available for iPhone and Android phones, was developed in Brazil and allows to store data from diabetic glucose levels and receive alerts on schedules of drugs.

Baby São Luiz: This application is available for Ipad and allows women to register pregnancy outcome and have medical information on the subject.

Tecnonutri: Available for Android, helps control processes eating habits.
UnitCare: Brazilian company developed the system in partnership with UFRGS that allows you to monitor remotely, by phone or tablet, vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure and glucose concentration.

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