HP fights heart disease with cloud

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has revealed that it recently developed wireless and mobile healthcare applications into a solution that also includes cloud computing, reports InfoTech.

It will be hosted at its data centre design for cloud computing lab in Singapore. This solution is meant to come up with a solution to improve and prevent heart diseases.

According to International Business Times, the research was conducted by HP's Singapore branch in association with telecom giant SingTel, medical device maker HealthSTATS and Singaporean health provider Frontier Healthcare.

The health monitoring aims to improve the early detection, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular symptoms and conditions, which accounted for more than 25% of all deaths in Singapore in 2009.

The HP Mobile Health (mHealth) Monitoring Solution will offer medical guidance to treat such diseases without the patient having to visit clinics or hospitals to get their vital statistics checked.

The mHealth will deploy a mobile device to check and record the patient's blood pressure and then share that information with healthcare professionals, wherever they're located. Any irregularity in the users' health data will trigger alerts to the healthcare service provider.

The solution enables near real-time information sharing to help healthcare professionals in the early detection, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular conditions, says Healthcare IT News.

Frontier Healthcare Group will provide additional post-trial expertise to fine-tune the patients' interface with the technology and refine the doctor-patient engagement made possible with this new level of health monitoring.