New Orleans Project Mobile Health, Medical Scooter, wins $ 50,000 Grant Update Pepsi
New Orleans, LA (openPR) 2 October 2010
As part of its project to update the Gulf Pepsi was asked a medical scooter 000 grant applications to the health monitor is available for the citizens of New Orleans superiors. The project, a collaboration between AMGlobal counseling and medical technology companies Sensar bring a new approach to medical care to seniors who are looking to chronic diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes management.
The project is about a medical monitoring system based Sensarisâ very mobile? sens pack, can the health of workers, patients, where they live and gather reach to bring cellular connection to the data for a patient? S physician or health care network in real time. The consensus pack that contains sensors to measure glucose, blood pressure and pulse oxygen level, even a solar panel or charger crank, which makes the units of A? Greena? Technology and completely self-sufficient.
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Medical is a joint effort of Sensar Grenoble (www.sensaris.com), known for its innovative integration of sensors and mobile phone technology, and AMGlobal Consulting, a consulting firm in the U.S. for internationally recognized his work on the social responsibility and technology. Sensar founder Michael Setton seized the opportunity of the project in New Orleans started. â? In places like New Orleans where there was considerable concern about the management of chronic diseases, we believe we can make a real difference in accessible care for patients directly, â? He said. Levels of chronic disease in older people in New Orleans are among the highest in the country.
New Orleans native Beau Babst, who heads the project on the ground, expressed his enthusiasm. Babst, from Newman High and the University of Yale, studied and had just his second year in the city with Teach for America completed before he was elected by AMGlobal. Babst said, â? Particularly in the aftermath of Katrina, we know that the health services for the poor and elderly in our city overloaded. Scooter with medical, we can show a new technology and a new model of care. We have a chance to provide care for hundreds of new Orleanians.â p> ????
on the successful work of the grant based Pepsi hopes the team around the project to other regions of the United States and emerging and developing countries, where mobile solutions can extend health effects even greater. â? Wea? worked for years in Africa and Latin America and saw a few technologies with high potential knowledge-pack. This could be the face of health care in developing countries, a change? Said Andrew Mack, Director of Consulting AMGlobal. â? We are pleased to have won the Pepsi Grant and excited to start work in New Orleans.â p> ????
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