Predictive Health Monitoring - What is it?                         Short Version.

Predictive Health Monitoring is a patent-pending system and method created to provide monitored individuals with an early warning of infections, permitting early medical intervention. [Example] Respiratory infections1 and non-respiratory infections2 can now be detected up to two days before monitored individuals experience significant symptoms. Predictive health monitoring technology was tested successfully late in 2004 at a major hospital in Tianjin, China and at five health clinics in Hong Kong, the very part of the world most concerned about infectious disease epidemics. In fact, the Tianjin hospital that participated in the tests was known there as the SARS hospital, since it had 200 cases during the SARS epidemic in China. The same Predictive health monitoring technology can be used to literally prevent the epidemic spread of infectious disease throughout a monitored community, when combined with infected area quarantines. Wide spread use of the methods will require the development of a unique health monitor capable of recording multiple vital signs, including basal metabolic temperature, and forwarding the data to a remote system for immediate analysis. Such a device is presently being developed by Predictive Inc. 1   influenza - including avian flu - bronchitis, pneumonia and others. 2   strep throat, urinary tract infections and others.