A monitor a day keeps doctor away
PA Wellington Home monitoring equipment which measures blood pressure, temperature and heart beat will soon be available in New Zealand. The health care devices will be able to be linked with home computers. The Wellington-based company importing them, Northrop Instruments and Systems, Ltd, said eventually families would be able to monitor their health daily and possibly link up to a central monitoring system in a community hospital. The company’s managing director, Mr Murray Cole, said that among the home
health care products that would be available was an electronic thermometer which measures in less time than conventional mercury thermometers. He said that he expected home health monitoring devices would soon become universally accepted. The Health Department’s deputy-director of clinical services, Dr Bob Boyd, said instruments for measuring blood pressure and heart beat in the home were already available. Most of these were being used in specialised cases where someone had a particular complaint. Dr Bovd said.
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Press, 3 July 1985, Page 41
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