Telemedicine 2.0

CNNMoney: Can camera-equipped mobile phones make families healthier? One Canadian company says yes. Quebec-based Myca already has a hit with a service called MyFoodPhone, which lets users snap photos of their daily meals and send them to the company’s nutritional analysts.
Myca is a pioneer in what you might call Telemedicine 2.0. It started modestly with MyFoodPhone. For $10 a month, subscribers get biweekly videos via e-mail offering personalized dietary suggestions based on their phone snapshots. Launched in May 2006, it’s already landed more than 5,000 customers.
Doctorphone and Babyphone, both still in development, are more ambitious. Both will let subscribers conference with Myca’s network of freelance nurses and doctors. Heart rate and temperature data can be transmitted to a patient’s electronic medical-record file, and doctor-patient conversations are archived for future reference.
Medicine goes 2.0 [CNNMoney]