Category: Digital Health, Wearable technology and Devices

Team “Notify” from Usin’Life won the Hackathon Prize4Life and is moving on to the next level for qualification.     The idea was to create a notification system that informs the care-giver or family about two needs – 1. Small needs, like a drink of water and 2.Emergency, like help me breathe. One  cloudy but…

Usin’Life presented a concept of Pervasive computing and intelligent healthcare monitoring devices at the Maker Faire from  Sept 23rd to Sept 24th  in New York, NY and was awarded the BEST IN CLASS 2017. The Wikipedia defines Pervasive Computing as “Embedding computational capability into everyday objects to make them effectively communicate and perform useful tasks”.…

Sound as we listen is made up of multiple frequencies. The typical way of separating them has been computationally using an algorithm called a Fourier transform. However, researchers in Switzerland have managed to split sound into different frequency by way of a device – a 40cm aluminum case with 10 holes on its sides –…

Vibration sensing is important for sensing failure of instrumentation or found sound and vibration measurements. Technology for detecting sound has existed for a long time and usually employs a variety of microphones. However, vibration is difficult to measure easily. There have been many reports of utilization of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based technology such as this…

Device companies often try to fulfill a need in the market. For example if the need in the market is irregular heartbeat then the companies are tempted to create pacemakers in collaboration with doctors which enable them to create devices that would regulate that heartbeat electronically. However, last year MDDI online came up with a…

A very concise description of automated blood pressure measurement. When new medical doctors are taught to take blood pressure, they are taught to listen to the sounds through their stethoscope while inflating and then slowly deflating the arm cuff. This instrument is called the sphygmomanometer. There are distinct sounds that one hears as the artery…

There are many companies that develop kits for diagnostics that are primarily made for diagnostic laboratories. There are a smaller range of kits that are available for direct to consumer use. The kits that are available have to be certified and have to be simple enough to use. For example, a pregnancy test is a…

There are several methods to detect analytes in the microscale. These vary from characterizing some specific property of the analyte being measured. One interesting method that has been used by Dr Richard Wilson of University of Houston is to create retroreflectors that are bound to specific antibodies or ligands. Retroreflectors normally reflect all the light…

Dean Kamen is an inventor who has more than 440 patents, has started many successful companies and is an accomplished serial entrepreneur. He probably has started more companies and developed more devices than many other people. His continuing accomplishment is FIRST robotics, that aims to develop robots by school children and help in their development.…

It is well known in literature that the surface topography has a profound effect on immune reaction – for example some rough surfaces of implants can create some very bad adverse reactions. Similarly, there is good published literature from 1978 (Folkman and Mosconna) that showed that different concentrations of poly(2-hydroxethyl methacrylate) influenced the cell shape…