“Moca, an MIT student organization, today announced the release of the Moca source code, a set of foundational building blocks for telemedicine and mHealth applications that use wireless networks to connect rural healthcare workers to urban-area specialists.
Around the world, millions of people in rural areas lack access to medical specialists, such as a radiologist to read an ultrasound or a cardiologist to evaluate a patient with rheumatic heart disease. With the rapid expansion of cellular networks and substantial advancements in smartphone technologies, it is now possible — and affordable — to transmit patient data digitally from remote areas to specialists in urban areas, receive real-time feedback, and capture that consultation in a database. This enables rural healthcare workers to break down distance barriers to treatment and provides unprecedented opportunities for underserved populations to receive better healthcare.”
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HealthCanal, 18 February 2010
