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I read in the news that healthcare is really going to go mobile now. Ford has begun producing a car seat to monitor the driver’s heart rate – a development that Ford hopes may warn motorists of a possible heart attack, thus better providing for their safety and the safety of others on the road.
Is this mHealth or cHealth – where the c is standing for car?
And I have a few other thoughts about this;
If we start monitoring our heart rate, bloodpressure, sugar etc. are we not becoming even a higher risk in traffic then?
The American Heart Association and other medical experts say the body likely will send one or more of these warning signals of a heart attack:
- Uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing or pain in the center of the chest lasting more than a few minutes.
- Pain spreading to the shoulders, neck or arms. The pain may be mild to intense. It may feel like pressure, tightness, burning, or heavy weight. It may be located in the chest, upper abdomen, neck, jaw, or inside the arms or shoulders.
- Chest discomfort with lightheadedness, fainting, sweating, nausea or shortness of breath.
- Anxiety, nervousness and/or cold, sweaty skin.
- Paleness or pallor.
- Increased or irregular heart rate.
- Feeling of impending doom.
Not all of these signs occur in every attack. Sometimes they go away and return. Soooo, will the chair that only monitors heart rate really save lives, or is this again another expensive experiment in the mHealth arena????
And the person him or herself? Should any of theese symptoms pass un-noticed and if so, then it might be too late anyway…..