Yeah that kind of device, made by Phillips in my case. I don't think it had advanced functions like defib.. it felt barely big enough to be an EKG already but Im the noob. That said 14K is ludicrous.
The fact the mainstream market is able to sell 200€ smartphone with somehow advanced features is also ludicrous in that context. I guess it's just economy of scale power. But I'm convinced we could make the medical market a bit cheaper. It has serious implications on the whole structure. People will be treated differently based on cost. And in my case, that lack of 2G could have been lethal.
I went to a few fablab, these guys are replicating some mundane lab equipment for 1/100 or 1/1000 (can't recall) of the market price. I really liked that mindset.
The thing that makes smartphones so damn cheap is you can sell a couple of hundred million of them every year. It’s the same reason consumer grade GPUs and CPUs completely wiped out SGI, Sun, etc. Those companies weren’t incompetent, it’s just the economies of scale are insane.
> I don't think it had advanced functions like defib.
I can guarantee that it did. It may even have been an AED. Earlier ones didn't actually display an EKG rhythm, but current models can, and run "reasonably" at about $1,000.
If they hooked up either 4 leads or 10 leads to you, then you were getting the full meal deal, so to speak.
The fact the mainstream market is able to sell 200€ smartphone with somehow advanced features is also ludicrous in that context. I guess it's just economy of scale power. But I'm convinced we could make the medical market a bit cheaper. It has serious implications on the whole structure. People will be treated differently based on cost. And in my case, that lack of 2G could have been lethal.
I went to a few fablab, these guys are replicating some mundane lab equipment for 1/100 or 1/1000 (can't recall) of the market price. I really liked that mindset.