Intel set to revolutionise digital healthcare

SAN FRANCISCO: Intel Corp. is set to revolutionize the digital healthcare space with its solutions and applications designed to accelerate the development processes in healthcare information systems, acute care solutions, and personal health and wellness.

The chipmaker is engaged in developing an Information technology-based ecosystem that can deliver mission critical healthcare related information to the medical community as and when required.

Intel has already developed a blue-tooth enabled wireless stethoscope and is working towards developing new 'concept platforms' like healthcare tablet, showcased at the recently concluded Intel Developer Forum (IDF) here.

“This is a new focus for Intel. Now we are trying to provide healthcare-specific platforms that can create market opportunities for OEMs, ODMs and ISVs to apply information technology in order to help the healthcare industry solve some of the basic problems,” explained, Doug Busch, vice president and chief technology officer at Intel, Digital Health Group. He was speaking at the recently concluded IDF in San Francisco.

“The global medical community has got its own specific problems and we are trying to solve these problems with the help of information technology from the chip level to the device level of engineering,” Busch added.

“We are working on these concept platforms, which would be used as nodes for service providers. While we move forward with this concept platform, we are taking into considerations like mobile, hands free usage, contamination control, water-proofing, noise-free operation, sensor integration, automation, inferencing and easy data mining,” he explained.

Intel's healthcare tablet — concept platform is pen-enabled, drives true mobility with integrated sensors, RFID bar code readers, a built in camera, stethoscope and a built in infection control system.