Cheap Checkup Via Cell Phone
October 11, 2011 | Terry Sharrer
Caltech may be the only school in California where surfing doesn’t mean days on the waves. There SURF stands for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, and this past summer, a group of students carried out a cell phone medical project where the aim was designing a very low cost medical check up (temperature, blood pressure, heart function) via cell phone. While the students were thinking this would be targeted to poor countries, inexpensive medical access is a health asset to people everywhere. MORE