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Microsoft MyLife Helps Mobile Users Log Health Details Microsoft is conducting research into how users of mobile phones and the company’s other products such as Xbox, can use their handsets to monitor their health details and in this way improve health care.

The company’s lab branch, Microsoft Research has applications that plug into the existing Microsoft products such as HealthVault, which is a web service enabling patients to track their own health records. One such application is called MyLife which helps mobile phone users log their own blood pressure and weight and also monitor their meals and daily exercise.

Mobile phone users will, it is expected, be able to use built-in devices such as their camera, accelerometer and microphone to help them keep records of their health details, according to PCWorld.com.

Eric Chang, director of technology strategy at Microsoft Research Asia told reporters of Microsoft's long term goals. The aim ultimately is for mobile phone users to be able to photograph each meal and for an application to return data such as calorific content, food group and allergy information for each food item on the user’s plate.

Mr Chang said that the process could be made easier by having a tag attached to the meal for the mobile phone to scan. He added that, increasingly, mobile phones are having accelerometers built into them and these can detect how people sway while they walk; this allows MyLife to detect the number of steps taken by a mobile phone user on a daily basis.

Mr Chang also said that microphones would be used more and more to obtain additional information about the user’s environment and activities.

Concluding that this great breakthrough would place more medical data into the hands of patients rather than hospitals, the director said: “I think that's really going to allow us to have personalised medicine.”

Microsoft Phone news posted by Marilyn on 09 February 2010

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