New gadgets for health from smartphones

Supervising our health care is increasingly available to smartphones, which with new technologies and sensors can check, diagnose and even cure and treat many diseases and health problems.

New apps to check health virtually, to treat pain, manage stress, or control diseases like diabetes, made their debut at the Las Vegas consumer electronics show.

This group, which is based in France, VisioMed presented its Bewell Connect, a device that incorporates an app for smartphones that measures blood pressure, glucose monitoring and measures oxygen in the blood and temperature.

With these applications, having all these health indices you can have a good virtual medical diagnosis. Although of course, for now you can not replace a doctor with these applications.

However, this application is not limited: if the user has symptoms such as chest pain or breathing problems, he asks a series of questions and gives a potential diagnosis, while allowing the information to be shared with a doctor.

With a simple click the application is able to link the user with their doctor. In France, the health services device near Bewell works to create a network of doctors connecting from the United States.

Another device used as a bracelet, introduced during the CES in Las Vegas by the MedWand group, allows consumers to measure temperature, heart rate, oxygen levels and includes a camera to examine the throat and inner ear, making it that would allow doctors to do an exam online.

The data on this device, at $ 250 a unit, allows more tests than other similar aspects of telemedicine.

For example, if you're having a Skype consultation with your doctor, it's just a medical chat. Instead, with these applications, you can have an image of your tonsils, measure the temperature. It is much more accurate.

MedWand, which has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), plans to begin selling the device in June on a global scale.

He also argues that health insurance companies are optimistic about this development, because remote-controlled tests are cheaper than in the doctor's office.

The patient saves time and the doctor also.