MediPi: Raspberry Pi Open Source Telehealth Device Piloted in England #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
England’s National Health Service is putting into trials MediPi, an affordable, Rasberry Pi based, open source telehealth device patients may use at home to measure health stats. via RaspberryPi.org
MediPi is being trialled this year with heart failure patients in an NHS trust in the south of England. Richard Robinson, the developer, is a a technical integration specialist at the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) who has a particular interest in Raspberry Pi.
He was shocked to find studies suggesting that devices like this were costing the NHS at least £2,000 a year per patient, making telehealth devices just too expensive for many NHS trusts to be able to use in any numbers. MediPi is much cheaper. The whole kit – that is, the Pi the touchscreen, a blood pressure cuff, a finger oximeter and some diagnostic scales – comes in at £250 (the hope is that building devices like this in bulk will bring prices even lower). And it’s all built on open-source software.
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