“The pHealth conference has emerged as the leading international meeting on wearable micro and nano technologies for personalized medicine. Starting in 2004, pHealth has attracted scientists for various technologies, medical doctors, policy makers from the healthcare industry, hospital administration and allied professionals.
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Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily
“Today’s ordinary clothing has the untapped power to become tomorrow’s wearable electronics. A Canadian lab has tested special fibers that can help make soft, flexible touch screens and batteries woven directly into the fabrics of modern life.
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The Himalayan Times
“When you think of the latest and most powerful military technology you might imagine smart bullets that can bend around corners or advanced stealth technology that can render a soldier virtually invisible, but underwear? Probably not, but that is exactly what the U.S. military is adding to its seemingly endless arsenal.
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Peter Murray, Singularity Hub
“What a great place that Singularity University is. Smart, motivated people coming together to make the world a better place through technology. This past summer a group of talented students put their heads together to tackle the Global Health grand challenge. What they came up with was a hardware platform built into a t-shirt for which developers might design sensory applications.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“As obesity increasingly becomes a worldwide epidemic, especially within children and adolescent populations, solutions to the problem are poised to become a major focus within mHealth.
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TJ McCue, Forbes
“Mr. Bruning explained that she is focused on adaptive technology that will help people live a better life. Some of it is fun to look at or experience, but much of it has real-world applications that only a handful are exploring. She pointed me to look at Point Locus, haptic navigation for the visually impaired (see my recent post on Steve Hoefer and his Sonar for the Blind glove that he’s working on).
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Cory Schultz, iMedicalApps
“AT&T is typically recognized as a company that provides mobile phones, broadband, and other cloud based services to the general public.
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Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps
“When autistic children get stressed they often don’t show it. Instead, their tension might build until they have a meltdown, which can result in aggression toward others and even self-injury.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“McKinsey & Co. said in 2010 that the global market for mobile health was worth about $50 billion, with $20 billion of that in the U.S. alone. ABI Research estimated that sales of wearable wireless devices would top 100 million units per year by 2016. GigaOM cites those findings, but attempts to explain why.
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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Statistics in sports is about to hit a whole new level. A new generation of wearable monitors that measure heart rate, electrical activity in the heart, lung capacity, metabolism, and other metrics is allowing scientists to study athletes’ physiology as they play.
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Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps
“By 2020 it is estimated that 12 million elderly Americans will require long-term care and constant monitoring. This presents a tremendous opportunity for a company to develop a minimally invasive solution for monitoring patients outside of a clinical setting.
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Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps
“Perhaps the single greatest barrier to overcome in the movement toward pervasive consumer and physician adoption and use of wearable sensors and wireless body area networks is the invasive, uncomfortable, obtrusive and unsightly nature of most current sensor technology.
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James Gallagher, BBC News
“An “electronic tattoo” could herald a revolution in the way patients are monitored and provide a breakthrough in computer gaming, say US scientists.
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Alicia Rivera, El País
“La frontera entre la electrónica y la biología empieza a hacerse borrosa, según un equipo de ingenieros y científicos que ha desarrollado una piel artificial electrónica con enorme potencial en aplicaciones médica. Cargado de diferentes tipos de sensores, el parche de piel artificial, que se pega a la natural como un tatuaje temporal, se ha ensayado ya con éxito para medir la actividad eléctrica del corazón, del cerebro y de músculos. Su aplicación para sustituir los incómodos electrodos y cables que se utilizan para el diagnóstico y seguimiento cardíaco, parece evidente, pero las puertas que abre esta nueva piel artificial electrónica son enormes: los investigadores apuntan, por ejemplo que podrán construir sensores para medir la actividad cerebral en condiciones normales, sin recurrir a los aparatos equipos que se utilizan ahora, lo que permitirá investigar realmente cómo funciona el cerebro cuando la persona hace su vida normal.
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Fletcher RR et al, Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2010
Wearable sensors enable long-term continuous physiological monitoring, which is important for the treatment and management of many chronic illnesses, neurological disorders, and mental health issues. Examples include: diabetes, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), depression, drug addition, and anxiety disorders.
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Bonato P. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2010
The concept of monitoring individuals in the home and community settings was introduced more than 50 years ago, when Holter monitoring was proposed (in the late 1940s) and later adopted (in the 1960s) as a clinical tool. However, technologies to fully enable such vision were lacking and only sporadic and rather obtrusive monitoring techniques were available for several decades. Over the past decade, we have witnessed a great deal of progress in the field of wearable sensors and systems. Advances in this field have finally provided the tools to implement and deploy technology with the capabilities required by researchers in the field of patients’ home monitoring.
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Cho H et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 35(2)
We measured the electrical activity signals of the heart through vital signs monitoring garments that have textile electrodes in conductive yarns while the subject is in stable and dynamic motion conditions. To measure the electrical activity signals of the heart during daily activities, four types of monitoring garment were proposed. Two experiments were carried out as follows: the first experiment sought to discover which garment led to the least displacement of the textile electrode from its originally intended location on the wearer’s body. In the second, we measured and compared the electrical activity signals of the heart between the wearer’s stable and dynamic motion states.
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Engadget
“If athletic events were accessorized with coffee, comfy pajamas, and a particular knack for sedentariness, well, we’d be champs. Alas, sports are more typically characterized by movement which, we’re told, increases the participant’s pulse, breathing, and likelihood of turning an arm into a tattooed sleeve. Nevertheless, we can’t help but be intrigued by the Under Armour E39 (”E” for electric) compression shirt.
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Alida Budding - Hennink, Medicalfacts
“Vilans, kenniscentrum voor langdurende zorg, test de komende maanden het gebruik van een GPS-chip voor het terugvinden van mensen met dementie. Dit sluit aan bij de wensen van Alzheimer Nederland en het Landelijk bureau vermiste personen.
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Stewart Wolpin, DVICE
“To start with, mHealth is bio-sensors we’ll wear. Nothing obvious, necessarily. These bio-sensors could be built into stuff you already wear — eye glasses, belt buckles, hats, watches, bras, clothing, shoes, jewelry, whatever.
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