I think it could. As a matter of fact T-Mobile Poland is supposed to provide mobile telephony based health monitoring system. It's an emerging market, since IT companies turned their interest into "weareables". We'te on the good way to see professional solutions and equipment, eg. unexpensive holters with GSM transmission.
It might interest you to note that in the Netherlands, physicians use snapchat to share images. Unfortunately, this is an emerging practice that needs to be investigated in terms of the determinants of acceptance and use.