Sentences with phrase «of health sensors»

DEMO: THE FUTURE OF HEALTH SENSORS With Angela Baker of Qualcomm; Åsa Nordgren of Trice Imaging; Kevin R. Hart of TZOA; Ruchit Nagar of Khushi Baby; Mike Pallett of Cupris; and Adam Lashinsky of Fortune — Report by Katie Fehrenbacher — Video: Watch this Mobile Ultrasound in Action — Video of the entire session

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Saildrone's fleet of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens of sensors, measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.
Additionally, Rolls - Royce harnesses the IoT with their Engine Health Management system, a system of sensors and powerful analytics that identifies issues and plans maintenance before they become issues.
Other ventures that promise to help patients stick to their pill taking include GreatCall, which makes a reminder app; MedMinder and Vitality, both of which make «smart» pillboxes; and Proteus Digital Health, which makes tiny ingestible sensors that patients swallow with their meds to track pill consumption.
At San Francisco's Launch Festival in February 2014, he said sensors like those in a Fitbit would be the next wave of healthcare tech, freeing users from manually entering data to learn about their health.
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Sensors installed around the home monitor motion (tracking, for example, if the resident appears to be wandering or fails to rise from a chair or bed and how often doors open and close); check room temperature; and allow remote reporting of blood pressure, pulse, weight, and other health indicators.
Then there's Proteus Digital Health's ingestible sensor, which — with a technology worthy of an episode of Black Mirror — helps patients (and, if they want, their doctors and family members) keep tabs on whether or not they're taking their meds.
The Top 5 VC funding deals in Q3 2014 were the $ 70 million raise by DXY (Ting Ting Group), an online healthcare community for medical institutions and healthcare providers in China, from Tencent Holdings Limited, a provider of comprehensive internet services in China, followed by the $ 52 million raise by Proteus Digital Health, a developer of products and services integrating medicines with ingestible sensors, wearable sensors, mobile and cloud computing.
Our areas of investment focus will continue to be in consumer and enterprise software and software - enabled services businesses in the following sub-sectors: Marketplaces, Mobile Commerce, Vertical and SMB SaaS, Information Services, Edtech, Fintech, Sports Tech, Travel Tech, Developer Tools and APIs, Marketing and Ad Tech, Imaging and Sensor Networks, and Health IT.
Digital health and the convergence of mobile technologies, sensors, persuasive design of software and analytics has afforded providers the opportunity to leverage the «labor» of healthcare to achieve equal or better clinical outcomes than traditional care has afforded them.
Digital Interventions: A Tour of Approaches and Evidence Digital health and the convergence of mobile technologies, sensors, persuasive design of software and analytics has afforded providers the opportunity to leverage the «labor» of healthcare to achieve equal or better clinical outcomes than traditional care has afforded them.
We help protect our Australia's productive industries, environment and human health from pests and diseases by assessing the risks they pose, prioritising the pathways of entry and providing new technologies for surveillance and early response through sensor networks and autonomous platforms.
«I would rather see all those high schools go out and even if they shared an athletic trainer, I'd rather see that than see them all go out and spend money on sensors,» Dawn Comstock, a leading concussion researcher, professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health, and member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, told SI.
Through our patented smart sensor technology we empower parents with information they can use to improve the health and wellness of their children.
On top of these football helmet sensors that measure concussions, the data that the Head Case System gathers will be made available on its very own website, thus acting as a comprehensive resource center that will provide information and news on the head health of athletes and give them, along with their coaches, parents, and doctors, personalized records of the trauma they've sustained.
These system - on - a-chip innovations will drive a host of new technologies and products in the consumer and business marketplace, including smart phones, tablets, and laptops; 3D systems for gaming; ultrafast and secure computer servers and IT systems; and sensor technology for emerging health care, clean energy and environmental applications.
In the study, Olshansky and colleagues use the number of steps taken daily — a measure collected by almost all wearable sensors — and show how, using scientifically verified formulas, the step data can be translated into measures of health risk.
Even tiny amounts of pathogens can create serious health risks, but the available sensors are unable to quickly and easily detect these quantities.
The use of cell phones and wireless sensors to gather and access health data has grown quickly in recent years.
Such flexible, biofriendly and transparent energy sources could someday energize implanted health sensors, insulin pumps or high - tech contact lenses that project virtual displays onto the wearer's line of sight.
There are environmental sensor networks that can monitor the health of crops, and you can buy large, expensive GPS sensors for tracking shipping containers.
This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.
I believe that technology, like the sensors I'm working on, is going to play a really big role in the health care system of the future.
Since demand in healthcare products is on the rise, there is a lot of activity in research and development of sensors for checking health and disease by examining the gas components of a person's breath.
Today's smartphone user can obtain a lot of data about his or her health, thanks to built - in or separate sensors.
Rogers» talk, to be held in Room F of the Austin Convention Center, is part of the scientific session «Biomedical Sensors: Advances in Health Monitoring and Disease Treatment.»
Rogers» sensors stick directly to the skin, moving with the body and providing detailed health metrics including heart function, muscle activity and quality of sleep.
The opportunities are great within health and Internet of Things, and for new types of sensors.
«They must have developed amplifiers that can amplify the signal better,» says Ethan Buch, a brain — computer interface researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health, who uses an EEG recorder with 64 sensors.
Instead of ad - hoc sampling, sensors could track drug use in real time — for example, monitoring usage patterns to inform public - health programmes.
Dr. Gradinaru's research interests focus on developing tools and methods for neuroscience (optogenetic actuators and sensors; tissue clearing and imaging) as well as on investigating the mechanisms underlying deep brain stimulation (DBS) and on the long - term effects of DBS on neuronal health, function, and ultimately behavior.
As Shenoi's second public - health inoculation scenario illustrates, the best way to ensure a computer is not just free of known viruses but also not infested with yet - to - be-identified ones would be to install a set of feedback sensors.
Affordable gas sensor setup developed by Tohoku University team monitors trace levels of health - indicating chemicals, paving the way for future non-invasive studies.
Replacing the LEDs with light sensors could also reveal the state of the wearer's retina and possibly monitor pilot health without invasive implants.
«Having a wearable sweat sensor is really incredible because the metabolites and electrolytes measured by the Javey device are vitally important for the health and well - being of an individual,» said Brooks, a co-author on the study.
The Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center and the National Institutes of Health helped support this work.
From health monitoring sensors woven into clothing to pacemaker leads that never wear out, stretchable electronics could usher in a new era of wearable tech.
Led by Dr. James Clugston, a University Athletic Association team physician at UF and an assistant professor of community health and family medicine, the UF researchers will correlate the data they collect from the sensors with additional data from blood and magnetic resonance imaging tests.
He said that if the behavior of the material prior to damage is better understood, this could lead to vehicle structures that act as sensors themselves, with the ability to report their health state and adapt to varying conditions.
«What we did in this paper is engineer our sensor to be about 15 times better than a previous version, and then compared it against a blood biomarker in a mouse model of ovarian cancer to show that we could beat it,» says Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the senior author of the study.
And in July 2015, the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X Prize was awarded to another U.S. team for its development of ocean sensors that improve scientific understanding of how carbon dioxide emissions are affecting ocean acidification.
Neuroscientist Gerwin Schalk of the New York State Department of Health has found that test sensors placed on the outside of human brains pick up signals that can identify spoken or imagined words.
A new NASA satellite — one of a fleet called the Earth Observing System — is using five state - of - the - art sensors to diagnose the planet's health like never before
A paper from the Regenstrief Institute takes a sweeping look at a variety of categories of health IT including electronic medical records; health information exchange; telemedicine; patient portals and personal health records; mobile devices, wearable sensors and monitors; and social media.
The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.
The device sensors pick up wrist movements to detect a person's eating behaviors, including when, how long and how fast they eat, said Brooke Bell, a doctoral candidate in health behavior research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC who is involved in the project.
EPA, together with the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services, today announced a nationwide competition to develop new, highly portable sensors that can measure air quality while monitoring a person's physiological response to air pollution.
Online, on paper, on TV, on social media, and slamming into us as they run down the street in sweaty lycra, we are surrounded by grinning, toned bodies weighed down by sensor - rich bracelets tracking pulse, steps, stress, sleep... Start - ups assure us that, in exchange for a simple spit sample, they can lay bare our genetic histories and futures with ancestry tests and detailed breakdowns of our health risks.
«Our study highlights the usefulness of dense sensor networks for urban weather and climate research with practical implications for human health, energy consumption, and environmental quality.»
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