On 15 October 2013 20:02, Sebastian Hilbert sebastian.hilbert@gmx.net wrote:
Hi all,
Am Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2013, 19:13:49 schrieb Zoltan Hoppar:
Hi Mario,
Yes, usually here at Hungary, I really miss one lightweight computer, that would be usable not only for direct communication, else maybe for quick analyses as tons of stuff can be plugged to USB. I would like to come closer to this problem to have an distribution, softwares that provides a tiny lab (EKG, EEG, carbon monoxide sensors, and many more) for emergency units to their field kit, and gives direct contact to doctors, or other specialists. With that, I think possibly we can replace with open source based softwares 4-5 or more devices with only a single computer.
What do you think, you see any potential in this idea? Can we provide open source alternative?
I am a doctor in Germany and I have trouble understanding what you are after.
Do you plan on replacing existing medical devices ? Good luck with that. All medical devices need to be certified. OpenSource for certified devices ? What a dream.
That was my initial reaction too, but on reflection medical devices actually have less arduous development than drugs do. You could conceivably do this with a university or research hospital with a clinical trials unit behind you, get the software and candidate hardware in place then let them deal with the required testing and approvals.
IEEE ran an interesting article a while back about how outdated lots of medical hardware is (they took defibrillators as an example).
However you should attempt to create a software platform for vendors to build upon. It takes more then a spin. Think about hardening the software for the hardware device. Optimize for boot speed. You don't have 30 seconds for that thing to boot. I know that systems are sold that are even worse. But those systems are made by rich companies.
Starting points [1] http://qdot.github.io/libomron/ [2] http://mdcf.santos.cis.ksu.edu/ [3] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mobilecg-accessible-clinical-grade-electro... [4] http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1525&context=cis...
If you manage to create a software stack that runs on some tablet from factor device, boots the operating system up in 3 seconds, runs an EKG viewer for [3] , runs GNUmed [5] you are well ahead of the crowd.
If you then manage to build a solution that makes available in almost realtime the EKG and blood pressure information to a nearby hospital via wireless uplink you are leading the crowd.
[5] wiki.gnumed.org