Philips and Intel also sell medical equipment

Royal Philips Electronics NV and chip giant Intel plan to release a wireless, handheld device to support doctors and nurses in recording and saving information about patients.

Philips, one of the world's leading manufacturers of medical devices, says the device has a huge application area. Equipped with a touch screen and digital camera, it can minimize diagnostic errors, quickly identify patients.

Source: AP In addition, it automatically fills content into data tables, detects vital signs, writes reports and even closely monitors the healing process.

Doctors and health professionals can use this device to read and send patient's medical records to the database. But most importantly, this device is easy to disinfect and sanitize. This could be considered a "key" to ensure success, because in many hospitals with strict rules, doctors are prohibited or restricted from using PDA for fear of causing infection.

As expected, the product will debut in the fourth quarter of this year, with prices not yet disclosed.

However, right now, it has at least one major competitor: A similar device with a widow of $ 2,200 announced by Intel and Motion Computing last week. Intel's representative said the company considers health a "big opportunity", when in the US alone, the workforce in this field has been 12 million people.

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