Using mobile network to check evacuees' blood pressure

MORIOKA, Japan - Photo taken at Iwate Medical University in Morioka shows a device to transmit blood pressure data by mobile phone. The university will launch a service for evacuees living in temporary housing in the prefecture following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, allowing them to transmit their blood pressure data to the university using such a device for medical checkups, university officials said June 27, 2012. If any problems are found, doctors at the university will report to the evacuees' primary physicians.

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