One the biggest problems when it comes to providing medical service to people living in remote areas, is the scarcity of doctors to provide a service. Having doctors traveling for miles to service just a few patients, is not the most productive use of a doctors time. But, at the same time, people living in remote areas are ever so much deserving of good health care, as those living in downtown Manhattan.
A few years ago, some forward thinking doctors and technologists came up with a plan to treat the high level of diabetes that was plaguing many Navajo people. Patients wear glucose monitors that are capable of transmitting their medical information to ballons that float higher than airplanes, yet lower then satellites. These balloons can then drop that information via parachutes, that are then located by GPS signal and forwarded to medical staff. It’s an interesting blend of old and new technology, that allows doctors to serve a larger number of patients, and only focus on those that are in need.
