HEALTH MONITOR
April 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIEA SATELLITE based monitor used to track the health of climbers on an expedition to Mount Everest will soon help British nurses better serve their patients.The Health Monitoring Kit, developed by Canadian company March Networks, allows nurses to monitor their patients externally through a camera and a Internet broadband connection.The kit contains easy-to-use equipment such as an armband, thermometer and a finger pulse monitor. The data collected is transferred directly to a nurse or doctor's computer via satellite telecommunications links.Rod ...
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