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Cell Phone Checkups Monitor Chronic Ills
Investor's Business Daily, June 25, 2007
Doctors are testing technology that uses wireless data, text messaging and other youth-friendly technology to monitor and manage chronic illnesses. ... Glenn Leinart, a diabetic 15-year-old who took part in clinical trials of cell-phone monitoring technology earlier this year, is sold on it. ... Using the phone, he sent the data to his health care provider and heard back via text message about how he was doing. ... "It really just gives you peace of mind because you know that someone who is a medical professional is looking at what's going on every day," Leinart said. ... Confidant, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., provided the blood-sugar monitoring system that Leinart tested. ... "It allows kids to use a technology that they want to carry around anyway - that's a cell phone," said pediatrician Marc Piehl, who participated in the clinical trial.
