Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Mini RFID device stores personal health data, makes it accessible instantly

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Japan-chemical and Asahi Kasei tech company has developed a health product that should make life for paramedics, emergency medical (and patients) simpler: portable device (pictured) allows you to instantly access all medical data on the individual PC or Smartphone through RFID.

Asahi Kasei uses smart card technology FeliCa (instead of billing solution), since this system was widely adopted by all mobile operators in Japan, some of the major manufacturers of PC (i.e. Sony for its Vaio computers) and other electronics companies. In Japan, FeliCa as a brand actually has been around since 1994.

Emergency physicians and paramedics can touch equipped with device for Felica equipment see medical data ownership, such as blood type, date of birth, etc. on the screen in seconds. Asahi Kasei said that the entire medical history of patients can be saved. If doctors need to be considered very large files, such as x-ray images, you can make access possible, allowing users to click on links that lead to this data (but stored on external servers).

The device simply changed to 3x3cm. According to the Japanese business daily Nikkei Asahi Kasei planning to the market within one year (and the price of $ 25 per unit).


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