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MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION MODULES FOR THE PALM COMPUTER

Award Information
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Branch: National Institutes of Health
Contract: 1R43HL069605-01
Agency Tracking Number: HL069605
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 2002
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
6901 EAST FISH LAKE ROAD SUITE #190
MAPLE GROVE, MN 55369
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 GREGORY SEIFERT
 (763) 463-4814
 GSEIFERT@AME-CORP.COM
Business Contact
 TOM HENDRICKSON
Phone: (763) 463-4814
Email: THENDRICKSON@AME-CORP.COM
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

This project will create plug-in modules that enable handheld Palm computers as medical devices for data acquisition. In particular, the phase I effort will develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a blood pressure module. The Springboard expansion slot on Handspring Corporation Palm handheld computers allows many peripheral devices to be used with system. Current modules include wireless network modems, GPS systems, image capturing, and Bluetooth radio modules. It is estimated that in the medical marketplace for handhelds, by 2004, 20 percent of US physicians will be using handheld devices in their practice. There are presently no medical instrumentation modules for Palm devices. The phase II will expand on the blood pressure module with the development of other plug-in modules such as a pulse oximeter, electrocardiograph, glucose monitor, and spirometer. The creation of medical instruments for the highly portable Palm platform reduces the price of medical devices because the back-end processing and user interface elements of the devices need not be created for each individual device. Additional benefits are gained, including a reduction in transcription errors, by having the data from the medical devices directly loaded to a database over a wireless network.

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