Better Care Medical

Will there ever be a comprehensive home health medical testing kit made available for the consumer?

Used in conjunction with a home computer, various devices for measuring and testing the physiological particulars and conditions of the user could be made. Data could then be stored on disc, and made available to professionals. Online, or "live" monitoring could be made by busy doctors a thousand miles away. The interactive 'home medical testing kit' could even serve to provide crude diagnostics, or at least follow up recommendations for the user and doctor. Is this possible today? What type of tests could be made with this "kit"? examples: blood gas concentrations, respiration, heart rate, blood pressure ...what else? Could this take some of the pressure off the national health care system? Or would erred and false testing (positives) complicate matters and end up bogging down the system? What other problems might there be? I hope my question isn't too "pie in the sky". Is it is even viable? To the first poster: Womens' health care, testing and monitoring affords itself well to this DIY technology, and kits specifically designed for women could be made separately. Great idea---thank you very much.

Public Comments

1. Sounds awesome! If no one has been working on it, you should go for it. Even if the diagnosis was wrong, I don't think it would bog down any health system. We go in w/ no info. as it is, so if we go in w/ the wrong diagnosis, then what difference would it make? Anyway, the system could only get better as time went on, and diagnosis could become more correct and consistent. I've noticed that some companies are marketing test kits for home use for Urinary Tract Infections and Yeast Infections. Both common and irritating or very painful to women in particular. Being able to diagnosis for myself will make it much easier to simply call my DR. and tell him that I have a UTI and need antibiotics. He can order them over the phone and I never need to be seen, saving him time in his busy schedule and me a co-pay. I love it! Well, I don't think it's pie in the sky, so best of luck to you!