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Women who are trying to get pregnant often find it difficult to determine their fertility windows. Tracking basal body temperature (BBT) is a common method of predicting ovulation. The traditional way to track cycles by taking the woman's temperature when she first arises gives a single daily data point that can easily be thrown off by other factors. We have looked in the past … [Read more...]
Flexible Design Harvest Heat Energy
In order for Health Tech wearables to become widely adopted, they must be able to go about their duties with a minimum of attention from their users. Having to recharge a device every night is not convenient, especially when you compare it to a typical $25 wristwatch that can run for three years or more on a single coin-style battery. One solution is to harvest energy from the … [Read more...]
Study: Remote Monitor Detects Fever Sooner
Patients in hospitals are monitored to keep track of their vital signs. Those in intensive care are connected to monitors that issue alerts when numbers get out of range, but the average patient is only checked at four-hour intervals throughout the day. This is the typical standard-of-care (SOC) method, but it can be slow to notice a rapid change for a vital sign such as body … [Read more...]
Telemedicine Heads to Sea
Telemedicine helps deliver medical care to under-served populations. We tend to think of under-developed regions or sparsely populated rural areas as being the primary targets for these services, but there's another population that can benefit from remote access to medical information: crew members on commercial freighters. It turns out that one out of every five ships is … [Read more...]
Algorithm Diagnoses Childhood Pneumonia
Healthcare workers in underdeveloped regions struggle to diagnose and treat even basic illnesses and conditions. One prime example is pneumonia, which is the leading cause of death for children under the age of 5 years old. Doctors and healthcare workers in poor areas typically rely on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) diagnostic standards issued by the World … [Read more...]
