Korea is no doubt one of the most advanced in terms of mobile technology. A team from Korea's Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology has developed a sensor that monitors Glutamine Oxaloacetic Transaminase and Glutamine Pyruvic Transaminase (indicators of liver function) and beams it off to a hospital or third party via the phone.
I'm sure they'll figure out privacy/HIPAA related issues in time. You don't want your friends to accidentally receive your GOT or GPT stats!
More importantly, this opens up a new model where the phone is merely the information relay device ... the data gathering piece is a special add-on and the data processing is done elsewhere.
Full Story at Textually.org
technorati tags:phone, biotech, Korea
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