Digital Health, Wearable technology and Devices

Many studies in digital health use accelerometers that are worn on the wrist to track activity of the person. This activity is measured through the day and then a score is computed for the person to express their score: activity to sedentary ratio. In consumer world, this is expressed as some measure – say the…

Sensing chemicals or metabolites in human body is difficult and new technologies are requiredSeveral sensors exist for measuring specific compounds in body fluids in vitro and in vivo. The common ones to sense glucose and lactate use and enzyme that is coupled to some electronic moiety that then generates a signal. This signal is then…

Typical heaters are made very simple with a resistance that generates heat but can be complex to control. For example, see the design picture for a temperature controlled fan. There has to be a sensing element which needs to send an input to the control processor or element which in turns needs to regulate the…

  There are several problems in treating cancer. Among the most vexing is to figure out exactly the type of tumor so that you can come up with a very specific therapy. If you cannot get access to the cancer through some simple measures then the physicians only choice is to look at it through…

  What is the value of simplicity? Take the Apple store as an example. Not too many places to sit and browse but just simple table in the center and then devices off to the side. Of course there is the glass front which enables everything to be seen. But imagine creating a medical device…

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…