CliniCloud Review: Should Doctors and Patients Use the Digital Stethoscope?

The digital stethoscope lets patients and doctors record cardiac and lung sounds, then stream them to a clinician remotely, storing them for comparisons later. Doctors have always relied on the stethoscope to diagnose common conditions, from asthma and pneumonia to the common cold. The modern stethoscope has become a symbol of being a physician. However, the technology is still basically the same as the 19th century French invention of putting a wooden tube to the patient’s body to augment sounds. In the day of portable ultrasound and cloud storage, the stethoscope cannot be used to diagnose a patient remotely, or compare records over time. It was high time to bring it to the digital age. A digital stethoscope for a digital age A few years ago, I met Hon Weng Chong, a physician in Melbourne, who described a fantastic idea to me. He grew up in the digital world but the devices he had to work with as an aspiring physician were analogue. He decided to change this, and prototyped the first digital stethoscope. The genius of his approach was creating a really simple, portable device that can be paired with a smartphone application. CliniCloud was launched in 2016. I was among the first people to test it. Let’s see how it looks! Unboxing the Clinicloud It comes in a neat blue package which contains the digital stethoscope, the cable connecting the device and the smartphone; and a non-contact thermometer. CliniCloud’s thermometer takes temperature readings instantly with no...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Portable Diagnostics gc4 Source Type: blogs