Synching drug delivery with your Palm handheld

Alexander Turcic · 01-12-2006, 11:11 AM

Businessweek runs an interesting story on how a modified Handspring Palm OS handheld can be used to wirelessly control an internal pump that delivers medicine inside your body. The so-called Personal Therapy Manager (PTM) handheld is a patient-controlled device with a screen interface that can sync with the company's programmable implanted pumps to deliver medicine, via catheter, to the fluid near the spinal cord -- a process known as intrathecal drug delivery.

I am sure people with certain kinds of chronic pain may be candidates for this drug delivery therapy. We only hope the software is bug-free, or this could quickly turn into a ticking time-bomb.

More on intrathecal drug delivery can be found here.

rmeister0 · 01-12-2006, 12:31 PM

Just wait until a hacker kills someone and the lawsuit start flying.

Yea, I'm a cynic.

01-12-2006, 11:11 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Synching drug delivery with your Palm handheld Businessweek runs an interesting story on how a modified Handspring Palm OS handheld can be used to wirelessly control an internal pump that delivers medicine inside your body. The so-called Personal Therapy Manager (PTM) handheld is a patient-controlled device with a screen interface that can sync with the company's programmable implanted pumps to deliver medicine, via catheter, to the fluid near the spinal cord -- a process known as intrathecal drug delivery. I am sure people with certain kinds of chronic pain may be candidates for this drug delivery therapy. We only hope the software is bug-free, or this could quickly turn into a ticking time-bomb. More on intrathecal drug delivery can be found here.

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01-12-2006, 12:31 PM	#2
rmeister0 Addict Posts: 270 Karma: 298 Join Date: Mar 2005	Just wait until a hacker kills someone and the lawsuit start flying. Yea, I'm a cynic.

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