Hello Dr,<div><br></div><div><div>Ah, this is remarkable. I was never aware of these all developments happening in India .</div><div>Thanks for the information.</div><div><br></div><div>All these ideas should go to the main stream usage, then we can see some real progress. Even a highly stripped</div>
<div>down version of the DEBEL prototype can make a big difference.</div><div><br></div><div>If we use a lot of automation and proper information management in Hospitals ( Define a proper workflow protocol) a lot of chaos</div>
<div>can be eliminated completely.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope the modern hospitals are using such systems (??). All govt ones looked like complete chaos to me!</div><div><br></div><div>-Deepak</div><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Reji Rajan Varghese <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drrrvarghese@gmail.com">drrrvarghese@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Dear Deepak,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Thanks for the informative mail with
good link.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I am much thrilled seeing your mail.
The few thought you have suggested, I think are the best examples and
are the ones under development nowadays. I am looking forward to meet
a person like you.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Here is my comments on your thought
which you have enumerated</p>
<ol><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">The smart card as you suggested is
under development and implementation under the health ministry
under NHRM program.
<a href="http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/Presentations/Key_Smart_presentation.pps" target="_blank">http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/Presentations/Key_Smart_presentation.pps</a></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"> The remote monitoring system you
have mentioned is being developed by DEBEL, Banglore ( DRDO's
Bioengineering Lab). I have seen this during my visit.
<a href="http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/jjbe/article/PIIS1350453307000975/abstract" target="_blank">http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/jjbe/article/PIIS1350453307000975/abstract</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">As you cited the example of diabetus,
a glucose sensor is being developmented by DR. Wayne D Flash.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><a href="http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/wfrasch.php" target="_blank">http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/wfrasch.php</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"> He came to Kochi for the
international conferance in nanotechnology few months back and had
given a presentation on this.
</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I have seen a prototype of the
your idea for taking the image of the eye and sending it for expert
opinion in the IKMC conferance, Hyderabad recently. The done by a
group of mainly malayalees in banglore. There company has one the
price of 25 lakhs.</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"> Medical image processing is one
my areas of special interest. As you said there a lot variety of
medical image which are used in diagnosis and in the treatment.
Examples of the images include radiological images ( Xray,
Ultrasound, CT, MRI, etc), Pathological Images ( cytology,
histopathology), Opthalomological images and so on. Right now the
algorithm is helping mainly for getting the image. For the image
analysis and diagnosis is done mostly by an doctor. For image
analysis, segmentation, registration and computer aided diagnosis
the development in image processing can be made used. I have worked
on algorithms for automatic segmentation of brain from MR images.
Medical imaging , medical image processing is the areas where I can
help the most.</p>
</li></ol>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"> I think there could be lot more even
in these problems one can contribute. This is a very small list of
the medical application of the technology. I think you will find a
lot of unmet needs of technology in medicine if you look forward.</p>
<ol start="4"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"> I am from Ernakulam,and I am also
searching similar minded individuals from diverse disciplines.
</p></ol>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">With Thanks & Regards</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Dr. Reji</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">mob: 9447104176</p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Deepak Narayan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deepakvr@gmail.com" target="_blank">deepakvr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
Dear Dr,<div><br></div><div><div>Nice to see you on the list! :).</div><div><br></div><div>I have been thinking in the same lines for a while now. Putting technology in the right place can revolutionize medical practice in here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A few thoughts,</div><div><br></div><div>1. Smartcard based patient information system. The consultation begins with the Dr swiping the smart card on a reader and the entire medical history can be checked using a PC application. This can be integrated to a hospital information system. You can also store prescriptions in the smartcard. Every registered patient of the hospital gets a card</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>2. A remote monitoring (multimonitor)system for patients who require continuous care but not bedridden. Eg: Diabetes patients. The solution will be a handheld device which can connect to a hospital server over the internet. The device can have a GPRS connection or it can connect to the home internet connection over wifi. The patient can send the blood sugar readings (the device can integrate to a glucometer or any kind of meter) to the doctor and Dr analyzes that on a patient information system. The dr can push prescriptions , send reminders etc through the machine. May be the machine can store all the health records too.</div>
<div>See an example here , <a href="http://www.logicpd.com/solutions/medical" target="_blank">http://www.logicpd.com/solutions/medical</a></div><div> <a href="http://www.logicpd.com/our-work" target="_blank">http://www.logicpd.com/our-work</a> (check the handheld device in the photo, that runs Linux- i think Android)</div>
<div><br></div><div>3. Automated quick first level diagnosis. eg: in a opthalmic hospital, the photo of the eye is taken and the machine can determine which dept should the patient be referred to. There can be an error rate in this, but again it gets corrected in the 2nd level when the Dr sees the patient.I think some ophthal hospitals have already implemented this system</div>
<div><br></div><div> see this comps offerings : <a href="http://www.acropetal.com/health_care.htm" target="_blank">http://www.acropetal.com/health_care.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>4. Small devices like Pulse Oximetry sensors. Semiconductor companies like Texas Instruments have a single chip solution for this</div>
<div> <a href="http://focus.ti.com/docs/solution/folders/print/330.html" target="_blank">http://focus.ti.com/docs/solution/folders/print/330.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>5. Medical image processing using cloud computing infrastructure. There is a lot of research going on in this image processing domain which analyzes scans to automatically find out tumors etc. But most of these algorithms are too computationally intensive</div>
<div>that they take weeks to process the data.</div><div><a href="https://wiki.thayer.dartmouth.edu/display/nir/NIRFAST" target="_blank">https://wiki.thayer.dartmouth.edu/display/nir/NIRFAST</a></div><div>There is some good research taking place in IISc bangalore.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>There can be a lot of such ideas if we do a brainstorming. The market is huge and there is a social responsibility factor is enormous. My brother is a Dr so i do have some conversations with him on these. I has been searching for some similar minded individuals nearby.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for reading.</div><div><br></div><div>-Deepak</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://deepak.dk" target="_blank">http://deepak.dk</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://focus.ti.com/docs/solution/folders/print/330.html" target="_blank"></a> </div>
<div><div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Reji Rajan Varghese <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drrrvarghese@gmail.com" target="_blank">drrrvarghese@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Hi,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Nice to hear about "the heart beat and
pacemaker" in the linux based application. I would be happy to answer
a medical related doubt or any help if some body is interested in
developing any medical related application.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">I think in most cases you have a
technology / software / hardware solution , you may be able to find
a medical application if you work on it. If anybody is thinking in
this direction, I would like to help you. Iam from Ernakulam.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">If you look at a hospital you can see
that most of the treatment modality has its orgin from diverse
discipline. If you look at a CT Scan machine, it evolved from the X
ray machine by the implemenation of a mathematical concept “the
radon transform”. This is just an example. You can start doing it
in simple way. I mean you can think about modifying say your linux
application for a medical need.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">With Regards</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Dr. Reji</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, unni krishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unnikrishnan.a@gmail.com" target="_blank">unnikrishnan.a@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Reji,<br>
<br>
No, they are purely Linux based applications used to create high<br>
availability cluster.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br>
<a href="http://linux-ha.org/" target="_blank">http://linux-ha.org/</a><br>
<br>
Happy to know that there is a doctor in this list, so now I can ask<br>
biological doubts also in this list :-)<br>
<div><div></div><div><br>
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Reji Rajan Varghese<br>
<<a href="mailto:drrrvarghese@gmail.com" target="_blank">drrrvarghese@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi unni,<br>
><br>
> I am a Medical doctor using ubantu. I am just curious seeing your mail.<br>
><br>
> Are you taking about the biological heartbeat and the biomedical device “the<br>
> pacemaker” ? Or these are some other technicall stuff?<br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
><br>
> Dr. Reji<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:01 PM, unni krishnan <<a href="mailto:unnikrishnan.a@gmail.com" target="_blank">unnikrishnan.a@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> I am currently working on a high availability setup with heartbeat +<br>
>> pacemaker + drbd + ocfs2<br>
>><br>
>> For ocsf2 I have lot of doubts since I am new to cluster file systems.<br>
>> Is there anyone who already worked/researched in cluster file systems<br>
>> like ocfs2 or gfs, so that I can talk directly.<br>
>><br>
>> Its not possible to ask it through this list, because there are bunch<br>
>> of doubts :-)<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> Unni<br>
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