Cell phones set to revolutionize telemedicine. The popular, inexpensive cell phones are set to revolutionize telemedicine with the device taking up a potentially life-saving new role from battlefields, disaster zones and remote areas lacking advanced medical equipment and trained medical specialists.The study, describes that the telecommunications technology can be used to provide medical diagnosis and patient’s care, when doctors and patients are hundreds of miles apart.
According to researchers in the United States and Brazil, the inexpensive telemedicine system uses ordinary cell phone cameras to collect medical data from patients and transmit the data to expert’s located offsite for analysis and diagnosis.Two recent studies by other researchers showed that cell phones can be used to acquire and transmit images of wounds and rashes to off-site locations for diagnosis.Besides diagnosing diseases in humans, the cellophanes can also be used to detect disease in plants and livestock and for testing the quality of water and food, the report added.