Meditech: project key concepts

A note on the key concepts

The key concepts of the Meditech project moves around the creation of a multifunctional measuring system for health and disease support, especially in cases where it is difficult an immediate intervention. Really the most fictional approximate representation of this concept is just the tricorder user by Dr Leonard McCoy to diagnose almost anything (of any species the Enterprise meets during his travels) See more here: Medical tricorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This inspiring idea has already moved a not indifferent number of average and big players but - as for as what I saw until now proposals and ideas are oriented in directions that are not so much aligned with my personal vision of what science and technology will be.

Anyway, keeping apart the philosophical considerations I see that there are very few things already developed in this direction and few of these are today products. The other aspect - investigating in this apparently poor of interest niche of the biomedical devices applications - is that it seems that possible features are limited to a very generic range of diagnostic devices: heart-rate, temperature, blood pressure and few more.

The core of Meditech is to make a dedicated small and integrated application able to acquire data from more sophisticated probes, to reach a more complete diagnostic system that can be applied in conditions where a traditional diagnosis is slower, extremely difficult and in many cases impossible to make in a reasonable time.

[As some parts for the project diagnostic probes are under evaluation, this part is subject to future modifications and updates]

The second essential feature of Meditech

While a portable diagnostic first-aid tool should be used, not rarely in extreme conditions e.g. accidents, earthquakes, wild areas, etc. it is almost difficult that the injured(s) can count on a perfectly prepared medical crew. Here we are thinking in totally different places than an hospital. So the ability to connect potentially with any Android device to manage data and exchange information real-time with a medical support located remotely can be a definitive solution: The on-site group can count on a remote support, exchange live data and be helped and guided to operate in the better possible conditions despite de objective difficulties inducted by hostile factors impossible to control.

Conclusion

In conclusion to this short premise, what I mean is that the idea aims to be something more than a mere exercise of integration but I hope it will be possible to go many steps ahead. In the next few lines I explain the reasons that I consider more than sufficient to make this project a reality.

I have already explored the possibility to have some local (I live in the Ibiza island, Spain) structures available to test the prototype producing results to publish and promote it. I suppose - as for my experience over past projects - that when the prototype reach the testing phase it is not so difficult to find further sponsorship to make a first 10 units production. Then, last but not least very unit sold to a client (e.g. hospitals, environmental companies etc.) it will correspond a giveaway for free of another unit to a non-profit organisation (at the moment I plan to support Emergency, Save the children, Medicines sans frontieres).