Mobile Care (Moca) Platform for Google Android
The Moca team at MIT has seemed to come up with an interesting application of telemedicine using the Google Android software platform. The Moca team was able to use the Google Android API to develop an application which allows medical practitioners to communicate to a central server through their mobile device. In the field, trained users collect data such as qualitative measurements, images, and voice descriptions. Once the data has been transferred users can:
1) Request a trained physican look at the data and make a decision.
2) Store the data in an OpenMRS database
This type of integration is the technology that is going to take medical care to the next level. I’ve been trying to find the open-source software platform, but I have not had any luck thus far. Hopefully more to come later.