Healthcare kiosk next generation accessible healthcare solution

Making healthcare services easily accessible to the world population requires a huge skilled workforce along with massive investment in equipments for medical testing and monitoring. Due to the limited capital in developing countries and scarcity of skilled workforce, the problem is getting worse day by day. A fusion of technologies - vital signs monitoring and e-health based prescriptive diagnosis can provide an efficient and pervasive healthcare solution to address this problem. We propose the technology and its commercial application for providing such diagnostic health-care services, which could in time become as popular and pervasive as ATMs are today for financial activities. VSM technology is maturing with many companies integrating health sensors, while Web-based self help sites are becoming popular with sites like webmd.com being used with high degree of confidence by patients and practitioners alike. In our offering, we propose a kiosk like structure, where the vital signs of a patient are measured on the front-end; and with the data collected, a backend database (offline or tele-based) gives on-the-spot diagnosis. The user who already has logged in (like an ATM) is given his summary report, with either a preliminary solution or recommended to nearest specialty hospitals, and his record is updated with the new diagnosis and recommendations. The underlying business model is based on both service and advertising mode. For the sensing devices, the cost is extracted from the customer (minimal), while for the kiosk and display setup, the hospitals or Websites which are further recommended can pay in the form of advertisement revenue.