Tag Archives: wearable

The ongoing  epidemic is placing healthcare infrastructures under stress and unless it is absolutely necessary you are asked not to go to a hospital but stay isolated at home. Doctors will be providing support by phone, telling you what to do. Clearly, it is a different quality of care from …

2. Better use of energy, raw materials and more sophisticated tools Societal evolution has been marked by the use of energy, raw materials and tools. From the Stone Age (the issue was to pick up the right stone, usually obsidian, to make arrows) where fire was domesticated to the Bronze …

As shown in the graphics the ten big Tech companies are focussing their investment in the area of healthcare primarily on data analytics and genomics. Actually, these two areas are progressing hand in hand, with genomics leveraging on analytics to discover meaning. One has to read in this perspective the …

Just two years ago I was at a conference discussing the value of wearable as medical devices. The general mood among practitioners was that their accuracy was too low and too dependent on the way they were used to take the data generated into any consideration. The situation, however, seems …

Just yesterday I was discussing at a University of Trento master course  how technology evolution is leading to disruptions in several areas. One of the areas I mentioned was health care. In this area the sequencing of the genome is going to become a standard procedure for newborns in the …

4. Digital biometrics How many passwords do you have? How tough is it to remember them? And yet you never need to identify yourself when you meet a friend, even when you meet him again after 10 years! Connectivity of our body with the cyberspace will be a given in …

5G is going to be a sort of umbrella connecting a variety of things using different frequencies and different protocols. IoT will be part of the 5G “ecosystems” and the evolution of materials and production processes promises to extend the range of objects that can be IoT, by embedding electronics, …

An article published on Nature Communications by researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in South Korea reports on the successful development of a patch that can be worn on the skin containing a variety of sensors. This result is leveraging on a study to create soft electronic …