How cool would it be to have access to health medical records by smartphone?

Companies have been and continue to take action in this direction. On Tuesday July 27, 2010 in manufacturing.net there is an article “Qualcomm Announces Project to Enable 3G Health Care Access For Rural Japanese Communities” on this topic.

The article mentions a project that allows doctors to receive critical health information from 300 remote local residents through a 3G wireless network. The point here is that the residents are in areas that lack emergency health care services and can follow doctors’ advice on their wireless devices.

This is not new online health strategy in that other companies have had similar implementation plans. On June 25, 2008, Matt Hamblen wrote an article “Insurer offers mobile health records” in Computerworld. He stated that Blue Cross of Northeast Pennsylvania rolled out a secure mobile personal health record application that gave customers untethered access to their medical information.

Smartphone devices certainly make personal communications convenient, but they can be an immense step forward in helping doctors in online patient health care.