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
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
The European funded City4Age project aims to make cities more age-friendly. It will create innovative ICT tools and services for early detection of risks related to frailty and of Mild Cognitive Impairments (MCI). The services will be tested in several European cities, as well as in Singapore.
Source: City4Age – The ultimate city for the elderly population
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