Sentences with phrase «health monitoring devices»

Backed by HUAWEI Technologies and operators including Telefónica and Vodafone, the GSM Association (GSMA) has launched the Embedded Mobile initiative, aiming to bring down prices of 3G modules that can be embedded in cars, cameras, health monitoring devices and other machines by developing common standards and platforms.

«As people learn more about themselves with health monitoring devices, it is natural that they would wish to learn more about other members of their family, including their pets,» said Ben Jacobs, Whistle co-founder and CEO.

Using advanced health monitoring devices allow pet owners to quickly identify impending health concerns, monitor existing medical conditions and learn more about their pet's daily habits.

Earlier this year, the Journal of the American Medical Association warned that the «safety, effectiveness, and accuracy» of child and baby health monitoring devices are not checked or approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

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You name the health condition and someone has or is creating a wearable device to help monitor it - everything from gadgets to reduce eye strain, glucose monitors and tools to track wheezing symptoms for asthma suffers.

Fitness device maker Fitbit unveiled three new watches to monitor health on Monday, including a high - end model that could help the company fend off competition from Apple's (AAPL) hotly anticipated smart watch.

Today, Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata shed some light on the company's formerly announced foray into Quality of Life (QOL) devices, or non-wearable tech products aimed to help consumers monitor their health.

It launched the latest iteration of its cornerstone tracking device — the GO8 LTE, which offers advanced GPS technology, G - force monitoring, engine and battery health assessments and in - vehicle audible coaching.

The upshot is that these smart devices make predictive maintenance of machines out in the field easier, makes our homes more remote - controllable, and will let our doctors monitor our health and well being.

Hence an app called UA Record, a kind of overall health dashboard that relaunches this month in conjunction with the co-branded HTC devices — a Fitbit - like wrist strap, a chest - worn heart - rate monitor, and a connected scale, all sleek black and knobby red plastic, with scoreboard - inspired readouts.

As the cost of fitness trackers, smartwatches, and other healthcare wearables — such as chest strap heart rate monitors — decreases, these devices will become available to new audiences interested in monitoring their health.

AirStrip, an app that lets doctors use their mobile devices to monitor a hospital patient's vital signs remotely, is one of the many mobile technology startups that is helping to cut health care costs under Obamacare.

The company that has built and lost fortunes making paper, computer monitors and, more famously, mobile phones and networks, is buying connected - devices maker Withings for $ 192 million) to aid its push into digital health technology.

At this year's show, we saw two themes: digital health innovation is no longer limited to fitness trackers and smartwatches, and the newest devices being offered are geared towards consumers taking health monitoring into their own hands.

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart - monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the device was initially supposed to be «a state - of - the - art health - monitoring device that could measure blood pressure, heart activity and stress levels.»

Nokia kick - started its digital health business about a year and a half ago with the $ 170 million ($ 200 million in today's currency) purchase of French smart health gadget maker Withings, which had made a name for itself in activity trackers, smart scales, blood pressure monitors and other health and fitness devices.

By accepting PayPal via his website, in - store and in the gym, Greg can monitor the health of his business anywhere, on any device and in real time.

From hi - tech onesies to baby «smart socks», the world of wearable health monitoring and tracking devices for kids is growing more and more popular — especially with millennial parents.

Rather than merely offering a digital solution for tracking your kids poop schedule or feeding times, wearable health monitoring and tracking devices provide specific real - time data about your child and (generally) deliver it right to your smartphone.

Which is probably why all of these hi - tech health monitors and tracking devices tend to look so appealing.

If you're a millennial that was brought up on smart phones and FitBits, using wearable monitoring devices to help keep track of your kid's health and well - being may seem like the most natural thing in the world.

Construction of a rail spur, installation of health and safety monitoring devices and other requirements for using the rail line to move the dirt would take 120 days to implement after an agreement between CSX and the utilities is signed, according to Park District officials.

If they can tap into some elder tech, there is a chance that they can be safer as well as better informed when they use gadgets and devices such as GPS to help them navigate or apps on their smartphone to monitor their health.

The 2010 decision came after years of pressure from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other breastfeeding advocates to define breast pumps and other breastfeeding supplies as medical devices — the same standard that applies to other health - related gear like eyeglasses, diabetes monitors, and hearing aids.

Some cardiology devices now act as both vital signs monitors and therapies, allowing doctors to monitor a patient's health remotely.

• HEALTH A 2010 survey found that 40 percent of Americans would pay a subscription fee for a mobile device that would monitor their vital signs daily.

As it can take weeks to grow human cells into intact differentiated and functional tissues within Organ Chips, such as those that mimic the lung and intestine, and researchers seek to understand how drugs, toxins or other perturbations alter tissue structure and function, the team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Donald Ingber has been searching for ways to non-invasively monitor the health and maturity of cells cultured within these microfluidic devices over extended times.

The digital camera is just the latest innovation in a long and fruitful collaboration between two engineers — Huang and John A. Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign — that has developed stretchable electronics and various devices using the technology, including an earlier digital camera, advanced surgical tools and health / wellness monitors.

As technology devices proliferate, it is increasingly important to monitor how they will impact the health of users as well as the environment after they are discarded.

Ultrasensitive motion detector may lead to wearable devices for speech recognition and health monitoring

Rogers and his longtime collaborator Yonggang Huang are pioneers in developing skin - like stretchable electronics that move naturally with the skin, and this is their first device to monitor physiological health by analyzing biofluids.

«Soft, microfluidic «lab on the skin» developed for sweat analysis: Low - cost wearable electronic device collects and analyzes sweat for health monitoring.»

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have developed a novel design for a compact, ultra-sensitive nanosensor that can be used to make portable health - monitoring devices and to detect minute quantities of toxins and explosives for security applications.

The development of wearable devices such as those monitoring a person's health or physical performance, like heart rate or muscle activity, is currently underway with some products already on the market.

The elastic electrode constructed of breathable nanoscale meshes holds promise for the development of noninvasive e-skin devices that can monitor a person's health continuously over a long period.

While health monitors have exploded onto the consumer electronics scene over the past decade, researchers say this device, reported in the Jan. 28 issue of the journal Nature, is the first fully integrated electronic system that can provide continuous, non-invasive monitoring of multiple biochemicals in sweat.

The research team investigated 13 commercially available activity monitors, including devices by Basis, BodyMedia, Misfit, Fitbug, Ibitz, Polar and Withings, to detail what tactics they use to promote healthy and fit behaviors, determine how closely they match successful interventions and compare the functionality of several devices and their apps to the recommendations of health care professionals.

The researchers found that most of the interactive tools in these devices» apps for goal setting, self monitoring and feedback were in line with what health care professionals recommend for their patients.

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.

Researchers in nanomedicine have long dreamed of an age when molecular - scale computing devices could be embedded in our bodies to monitor health and treat diseases before they progress.

«The ultimate strategy is to have a device that you can place in the brain — or in other organs in the body — that is entirely implanted, intimately connected with the organ you want to monitor and can transmit signals wirelessly to provide information on the health of that organ, allowing doctors to intervene if necessary to prevent bigger problems,» said co-first author Rory K. J. Murphy, M.D., in a press release.

I look forward to adding to this list in the near future as we're on the verge of an explosion of medical monitoring devices that will provide detailed feedback on vital signs, stress levels, and nutrition to improve our health.

One of the exercises that we did in the heart rate monitor project actually, in turn, inspired me to start a new project in my current research work to think about using wearable devices to potentially monitor heart failure patients» cardiac health.»

We feel that schools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

chools, school districts, states and the federal government are requiring ever - increasing technology time without informed input from parents, and with little oversight of the effects of these devices and programs on children's health and even less monitoring of their academic effectiveness.

The deal bolsters NXP's position in other fast - growing chip markets, including wearable devices and health monitors, for example, while capitalizing on the company's strengths in security and payments.

In an age where a smartphone serves as everything from a dating tool to a health monitor, it's become increasingly difficult to market a device that's really only built to do one thing.

On this basis, Plastic Logic's ultra-thin, light - weight and flexible e-paper displays are getting plenty of attention, given the enormous opportunities for they open up in wearable device applications including smart cards, jewellery, watches and devices for mobile health monitoring.

Being plastic displays, they are ultrathin, lightweight and flexible, making them well suited for integration in a host of wearables including smart jewelry, devices for mobile health monitoring, smart clothing and shoes.