Category Archives: Biomedical Applications

The last time you had your blood pressure checked, it was probably at a doctor’s office with a bulky cuff wrapped around your arm. One day soon, perhaps, you will just need a simple stick-on patch on your neck, no bigger than a postage stamp. That’s the goal of Sheng Xu and his team at the…

Source: A stretchy stick-on patch can take blood pressure readings from deep inside your body

Terapie digitali, big data e blockchain potrebbero presto trasformare il modo in cui vengono erogate prescrizioni e servizi di assistenza sanitaria. La sfida è aperta

Source: Chi guiderà la rivoluzione della salute digitale?

In 1826, the French gastronomer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin published a book called The Physiology of Taste. The work is famous for introducing the aphorism “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”—the origin of the saying “You are what you eat.” Brillat-Savarin would no doubt have much to say about…

Source: Grocery bills can predict diabetes rates by neighborhood

The Exponential Medicine Experience A message from Conference Chair Daniel Kraft, MD: Healthcare is in many ways being practiced as it has been for millennium, as ‘SickCare’ — using old, reactive models and mindsets where the FAX machine is the primary mode of sending patient information, where data is still silo’d amongst paper charts or […]

Source: The Exponential Medicine Experience – Exponential Medicine | November 2019