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Mobile Point-of-Care Monitors and Diagnostic Device Design [Book Reviews]

ABSTRACT:

The primary section of the text gives an outline of sensors and systems concerned in the sphere. Presents a nice introduction to what follows, covering lab-on-a-chip technologies and their use with consumer electronic devices (CEDs) (aka smartphones, etc.) with and while not modification of same. Many examples and discussions of sensing technologies are given, and also the chapter concludes with eighty two references, completing this overview. The next four chapters give specific information on the chapter authors??? current efforts involving lab-on-a-cell-phone, the phone oximeter, transepidermal waterloss sensors, and ultrasound imaging system style. 3 chapters comprise the ???Data Processing and Implementation??? section. Chapter six covers the applying of CEDs for blood-smear analysis for mobile malaria diagnosis. It is a sensible overview of current efforts and therefore the roadblocks to a widespread implementation. Chapter seven covers usability engineering for mobile point-of-care devices and addresses U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and International Electrotechnical Commission usability codes; furthermore, it may serve as a sensible generic chapter for design issues for this field. Chapter 8 (???Translating Sensor Technology into the Medical Device Environment???) concludes the text with a nice overview of the FDA approval method and discusses some example technologies. Taken as a full, this text could be a helpful introduction to the sector of purpose-of-care technologies for the student or professional considering development of worldwide useful, cheap diagnostic technologies for the betterment of health care worldwide. Whereas the primary base device for a lot of of this text is the smartphone, the text is generic enough in approach that other areas of endeavor may be attempted.