What we need? digital medical (1)

Core Tip: in the near future, with the sensor, 3 g wireless and cloud computing technology, achieving ever-human health monitoring.

Located in ZHICHUN road, Haidian District, Beijing Sigma building five-storey in Microsoft Research Asia facing East of an Office area, Microsoft Senior researcher Dr. Zhu Wen Wu, led a group of 6 people (including 3 interns), noted with interest the work called "Bee" medical research projects.

The Chinese have been translated as "will benefit plans, aiming at" the direction is, in the near future, with the sensor, 3 g wireless and cloud computing technology, achieving ever-human health monitoring.

Like Microsoft this big company, you can not consider short-term interests to focus on doing research.

Microsoft Research Asia has such a team. Here researchers living in a very pure scientific research atmosphere, employers usually do not ask them those projects where the market, but are concerned about 10 years later, one of the areas which should be towards the direction of what occurred. Zhu Wen Wu and his project team working in a creative atmosphere.

"Our research projects in ten if one becomes a huge success, close to our expectations.

"Microsoft Research Asia technology strategy director Zhang Yi Zhao, said, this not only indicates that the Microsoft research and development investment, and you can let the researchers out of the market and money, heart and without distracting thoughts pure scientific research and innovation. In such an environment, Zhu Wen Wu is used purely to examine from the scientific perspective to his digital health project.

Body sense networks – omnipresent health monitoring

40-year-old Ms. Wang busy week preparing for the weekend with his family to climb mountains, this is probably happier things again.

Ms. Wang is normally used to sit in front of a computer, it is to drive to and from work, and very little physical activity, which should also be the most common in modern society, the most typical way of life. Lack of exercise of Ms. Wang climbing more than half an hour, you feel out of breath, rapid breathing, heartbeat, she is very worried about their own physical condition, will exercise excessive? especially recent climbing events often sudden death occurs more let Ms. Wang increased vigilance.

What is continuing to climb or to give up the way for climbing buildings, currently not possible to get professional advice and recommendations that can only be a mountaineering people "go with the feeling," according to the judgement of the physical condition.

But maybe in 10 years later, as human beings are net (Body Sensor Network), 3 g wireless technology matures and application, Ms. Wang in mountaineering en route through the mobile phone to send out their physiological data, and receive professional advice, whether this remind her to stop and rest.

The concept of networking in the medical field is often referred to as "body sense networks", according to Zhu Wen Wu explains, his sense of network refers to the adoption of mobile devices and sensors capture people's physiological state, such as physical activity levels, blood pressure, heartbeat, glucose levels and other important life index, and upload to your personal electronic health records for a doctor or personal anytime access, allowing doctors to help people develop a healthy lifestyle, and early on disease surveillance and prevention.

Traditional health monitoring mode, or the current most of us health monitoring mode includes daily monitoring, medical examination and the majority of the doctor.

Day-to-day monitoring is usually done in the home, the family often have medical monitoring devices include: blood pressure monitor, blood glucose meter, weight scales, thermometer, etc., they can help people achieve day-to-day health monitoring. "But these devices are usually kept at home rarely carry, meaning you can only achieve a fixed location for health monitoring, will not be able to monitor anytime, anywhere. "Zhu Wen Wu said. Physical examination can play a preventive effect, usually once a year, if physical examination found the problem and then go to the hospital for a targeted focus checks; The doctor is in the disease occurs after a doctor for treatment, this is the remedies, not prevention.

Sensor, 3 g wireless and cloud computing that the perfect combination of the three technologies, will completely subverting our traditional health monitoring mode, the realization of ubiquitous health monitoring, so that people can at any time to monitor their own health and movement of, for instance, how many steps a day to go, how much energy is consumed, the data for the "three high" crowd especially useful.

The sensor is the front of the body are network, it can collect many features.

Used in body sensor NET sense may generally be divided into two types can be transferred to the human body; one is wearing in the body, for example, on pulse, blood pressure, heartbeat monitoring exercise. Visually, the sensor's shape is also very simple, ingenious, sensor, similar to watch worn on the wrist, while others like headphones the same worn on the ear, on shoes, others like chuangketie as attached to the body of a site (for instance: the heart).

With the maturity of 3 g wireless technology, sensor and application to the data collected can be delivered to a mobile phone, "in the near future, people can take cell phone go where logging.

"Zhu Wen Wu further explained that:" for mobile phones and sensors can be connected via Bluetooth and mobile phone can receive signals from the sensors. ”