Nature Biotechnology: Wearable sensors

Figure 1: The types of physiological data points and the wearable sensors under development or on the market to monitor them.

From: Defining digital medicine Eric Elenko Lindsay Underwood Daphne Zohar Nature Biotechnology 33, 456–46 (2015) doi:10.1038/nbt.3222 12 May 2015

The types of physiological data points and the wearable sensors under development or on the market to monitor them.

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v33/n5/fig_tab/nbt.3222_F1.html

For women who can’t keep track of monthly cycles on their own as they have done for previously recorded human history, there is the “Leaf” from Bellabeat: http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/27/bellabeat-debuts-its-smart-necklace-that-monitors-womens-monthly-cycles/.  The company states that the app will do things like remind women to get more sleep and facilitate stress reduction.  They state that, “The future of prenatal care” is in bringing “self-tracking tools to pregnancy…to give pregnant women the attention they need and deserve.”

None other than the National Science Foundation (NSF) is advocating implantable antennae for patient monitoring; judging from the photo in this article, they are even suggesting putting them in babies, the most vulnerable members of ours society to microwave radiation: http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-help-finance-creation-of-implantable-body-antenna-for-long-term-patient-monitoring/

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