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Micro e-Health for India

The device records the medical health parameters and permits access to them

The global market for real-time healthcare monitoring, will be even higher than $ 40 billion, predict experts. For a developing country, the growth rate in this market is estimated to be around 60 per cent for the first few years and the emerging markets for this business is primarily in countries such as India and China.

To tap this opportunity, micro e-Health Limited, a subsidiary company of Micro-Technologies Limited has developed a product Micro e-Health (Me-H). The company is a global provider of security, safety and life-support solutions. Me-H boasts of unique features to monitor health parameters which will be of tremendous value to people, especially those suffering from cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. The device records the medical health parameters and permits access to them, enabling the co-ordination of the healthcare delivery, based on detailed and accurate health related information and the medical records.

People can use their Micro e-Health account as a communication hub wherein they can send emails to doctors, transfer information to specialists, receive tests results and access online self-help tools. "The system is a combination of hardware and software with a provision of being the data health bank for the storage of the health records of all the health parameters storage. It has the capability to communicate with an intelligent feeder, which depending on the criticality of the information is capable of deciding to communicate to the concerned and authorised care-giver or individuals, who can then take necessary steps within the least possible time lapse," states V Ganapathy, Head, Business Intelligence Group, Micro Technologies (India).

With the present scenario of shortage of time and busy lifestyle one might be in complete oblivion to his own personal health details. There needs to be a system which bridges the gap of availability of real time information on health parameters. Experts predict that without the availability of such a system, globally, close to one billion individuals become a hypertensive or diabetic or afflicted by other lifestyle and chronic diseases which could have been averted if detected early. In a way, this also means saving more than 40 per cent of GDP in the developing countries. If the same is diverted as investment in infrastructure and other cumulative expenditure it would be more than a few trillion dollars.

EH News Bureau