Tag: wearables
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BIP Digital Health – Technology for managing healthcare interventions
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Joost van Wijchen and I discuss the influential role of technology in managing and recording healthcare interventions. We highlight the risks of uncritical technology adoption, examine how user interface design impacts patient care, and call for ethical considerations and sustainable practices. And we talk about empowering digital…
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Article: Recommendations For Implementing a Longitudinal Study Using Wearable and Environmental Sensors in a Health Care Organization
This study gives examples for implementing technology-facilitated approaches and provides the following recommendations for conducting such longitudinal, sensor-based research, with both environmental and wearable sensors in a health care setting: pilot test sensors and software early and often; build trust with key stakeholders and with potential participants who may be wary of sensor-based data collection…
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Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) | TED Talk
So if you think about it, wireless signals, they travel through space, they go through obstacles and walls and occlusions, and some of them, they reflect off our bodies, because our bodies are full of water, and some of these minute reflections, they come back. And if, just if, I had a device that can…
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The future is ear: Why “hearables” are finally tech’s next big thing
Your ears have some enormously valuable properties. They are located just inches from your mouth, so they can understand your utterances far better than smart speakers across the room. Unlike your eyes, your ears are at work even when you are asleep, and they are our ultimate multi-taskers. Thousands die every year trying to text…