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First Aid, Medical Help from Mayo Clinic Available
for Seniors on Cell Phones
Traveling seniors can even find nearby emergency
rooms
 Feb. 23, 2007 – Senior citizens are not often eager
to jump on board to take advantage of new ideas for technical gadgets,
but they may want to take a second look at a new health information
program from Mayo Clinic that will be delivered by cellular phone.
“InTouch” will provide first aid tips, health alerts, locations of
nearby emergency rooms and even explain what your physical symptoms
mean.
Mayo Clinic, the largest not-for-profit medical
practice, has collaborated with Digital Cyclone, Inc., a Minnesota-based
subsidiary of Garmin, Ltd., to launch the software application that
delivers an array of health information and tools directly to cellular
phones for a monthly subscription.
The “Mayo Clinic InTouch” wireless health program
becomes available in this month.
“Mayo Clinic’s mission has three elements: quality
patient care, research to help cure diseases and education,” says Roger
Harms, M.D., a Mayo Clinic obstetrician and gynecologist and the medical
editor-in-chief for MayoClinic.com.
“Our education function is not limited to training
the next generation of physicians and other medical providers, though.
We also see providing health information to consumers as essential.
Through this new project we’re able to make it available to them
wherever they are.”
Using Mayo Clinic InTouch, wireless phone
subscribers have a rich health resource directly on their phone. A few
keystrokes give consumers immediate access to:
 ●
Step-by-step first aid tips
● A
Symptom Checker that provides self-care guidelines or advises emergency
care for more than 45 common symptoms in adults and children
●
More than 100 short health news videos
●
Timely health alerts and drug watches.
In addition, subscribers may enter their city or
ZIP code to search for nearby emergency and urgent care facilities from
a list of over 3,800 accredited providers. If the cell phone has global
positioning system (GPS) capability, it automatically finds nearby
accredited facilities without typing the city or ZIP code. The care
center’s information is displayed in list format and shows the
facility’s name, address and estimated distance.
Content for the Mayo Clinic InTouch program
primarily comes from MayoClinic.com and Mayo Clinic’s Medical Edge
syndicated news products.
Mayo Clinic InTouch is available for download on
all major wireless carriers, including
Alltel,
Cingular,
Sprint and
Verizon. Subscription fee is
just $2.99/month, billed directly to your phone bill.
Latest information and lists of wireless carriers
and phones supported is available at
http://www.digitalcyclone.com/mayo.
Editor’s Notes:
Mayo Clinic treats more than 500,000 people a year
in Minnesota, Florida and Arizona. Teams from every specialty
collaborate to care for patients, united by common systems and the
conviction that "the needs of the patient come first." *Always call 911
first for life-threatening medical emergencies. Emergency facilities
listed are accredited by The Joint Commission. GPS Capabilities are
wireless carrier and device dependent. Subscription fee does not include
any data access charges or minutes charged by your wireless carrier.
Coverage will differ depending on your carrier and phone.
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