X-Message-Number: 25943 From: "Mikhail Soloviev" <> Subject: Wireless device can monitor patients (BodyKom) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:26:02 +0200 Wireless device can monitor patients (Article from GlobeAndMail.com, March 30, 2005) * * * Excerpt: Nordic telecommunications operator TeliaSonera AB said Wednesday it is launching a new product that lets doctors monitor their patients through a wireless device. The new system, which is called BodyKom, connects wirelessly to sensors on the patient. If dangerous changes are detected in the patient's body, the hospital or health care services are automatically alerted over a secure mobile network connection. * * * Full text: http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050330.gtmedicalmar30/BNStory/Technology/ * * * Related press release: PRESS RELEASE from KIWOK AB For free publication 12 November 2004 Contact list attached Mobile Monitoring Saves Lives and Increases Quality of Life The BodyKom TM Series will be introduced at the Gothenburg Medicine Fair between 24 and 26 November under the concept of 'Remote Care'. Sensors are placed on the body to detect the user's state of health and react in critical or life- threatening situations by sending data to the nearest healthcare unit over a secure mobile network connection. The unit receiving the alarm will also be informed of the geographic position of the patient through the use of GPS technology. In practice this means that any illness that can be detected through sensors can also be handled wirelessly and an alarm sent to the nearest healthcare unit when either acute assistance or ongoing monitoring is needed. The registered patient data, sent in encrypted form, is stored directly in the patient's file and nowhere else along the way. Sensors are available for detecting various kinds of heart disease, blood pressure, diabetes, medication in blood and other data on the blood's content. The BodyKom Series TM system is connected to existing applications for analysis at healthcare units and hospitals, which implies that nurses and doctors have access to the data in real time directly from their work stations. They can thus monitor the situation right from the beginning of the incident to the moment at which the patient arrives in their care. The system's value and work methods in healthcare work environments will be evaluated in the next couple of years. The BodyKom Series TM method has been introduced to and discussed with nurses and doctors. During these discussions it transpired that its most important future opportunities lie in the capacity to complete even more valuable work with the help of improved real-time data to use as a basis for decision-making. The BodyKom Series TM system is built upon personal experiences: Anders Bjorlin of Kiwok suffers from heart flutters himself and has seen and understood the difficulty in diagnosing and medicating a patient correctly. He tells us: "On 5 July at around midnight, my car came to an abrupt halt at a roundabout. A subconscious reaction had caused me to put my foot down on the brake. I had had a blackout lasting just a few seconds, similar to those I had suffered from repeatedly in the past year. Many people in their sixties suffer from dizziness and my doctor had explained to me the difficulty of diagnosing these symptoms accurately. In my case it turned out that my heart had stopped for 5-6 seconds and that this was caused by one of the medicines I was taking." The BodyKom Series TM will also create cost savings in the healthcare sector in the form of fewer ambulance trips, fewer hospital visits and the possibility of providing in situ care. "Heart rate variability is often preceded by uncharacteristic symptoms and can be hard to diagnose, as the problem may appear very seldomly and for only a short period. Effective diagnosis and treatment can therefore be achieved through telemonitoring of the patient from a server with analysis functions, which then sends the data on to the doctor in charge," explains Professor Christer Sylven, director of the Heart Clinic at the Karolinska University Hospital. BodyKom TM provides an infrastructure with open interfaces, developed on the basis of industrial experience. It is all based on previously existing components, modified to work together. The BodyKom Series TM has been developed by Kiwok owners Bj rn S derberg and Anders Bjorlin through cooperation with no less than 15 companies. For further information please contact: Bjorn Soderberg, KIWOK AB; +46 73 80 50 900 _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25943