Nokia has joined the biometric monitoring platform club. The Finish technology and communications giant recently dropped the Withings brand name from its line of wearable health tech devices. Now Nokia is moving forward to develop and market biometric monitoring devices and its central software platform Health Mate. The platform collects data from Nokia devices and helps users … [Read more...]
System Makes Patient Data Available for Research
As we often point out here, data from the "quantified self" could hold the key to solving a host of medical and health issues, lowering costs and improving outcomes through earlier diagnosis and treatment. Wearable Health Tech devices are creating mountains of data and the recent move to electronic health records (EHRs) means that a lot of valuable information could be made … [Read more...]
Students Compete to Make Apps for Seniors [video]
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Next week, I'm going to have the honor of judging the work of about 250 high school and college students in a competition to design mobile apps for seniors. The 3rd Annual #WestchesterSmart Mobile App Development Bowl will be held on April 28 at Pace University's Westchester campus in Pleasantville, NY. The goal is to create an app that solves a need faced by seniors 65 … [Read more...]
Break Bad Habits with Shocking Wearable [video]
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Unhealthy habits resist change, regardless of good intentions and repeated efforts. Smoking, eating unhealthy food, and watching television or lingering in social media at the expense of adequate sleep plague many people. Rewards-based behavioral conditioning works for some people. Researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of Leuven studied the success of … [Read more...]
USB Smartphone Dongle Records 4-Electrode ECG
Electrocardiography is the first line technology to evaluate heart rate and rhythm. Some ECG (or EKG) devices rely optical sensors or touch. More accurate ECG machines or devices measure electrical impulses via electrodes. If you go to a doctor or the emergency room, chances are you'll be hooked-up with 12-leads attached to your skin with sticky patches in various … [Read more...]
