Keep Yourself and Your Family Healthy With These New Gadgets!

Wearable technologies have been revolutionizing the way we face health issues. Until some years ago, dealing with healthcare issues was mainly reactive. That is, we used to stick on the belief that if we don´t have the likelihood of contracting a given disease everything was just fine.

However, this mind-set has been losing room to a new and more engaging one. Thanks to rise of health-related wearables, we are in the position to be more proactive and up-to-date about our health status from the comfort of our home! We can now receive daily tailored suggestions and updates with regards not only to our health conditions, but also concerning our beloved ones that are in need of regular monitoring.

Our next WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2018 EUROPE that takes place in Munich will feature the latest start-ups and their products that will rule the healthcare sector in the upcoming years. Be sure to check them out:

Master Caution®, developed by HealthWatch, is the very first 3-12 lead ECG smart digital garment that is CE/FDA-cleared. Its continuous monitoring solutions assist physicians in remotely monitoring elderly patients as well as patients that are bed-ridden due to illness or infirmity. With Master Caution®, doctors can be notified about distinct cardiac events such as ischemia and arrhythmias in near real-time! By adopting the Master Caution®, doctors can rely on an automatic analysis (AI) that will secure and improve patient safety.

HeartIn is a fresh way of securing and monitoring your levels of athletic performance. Cardiovascular disease is a huge topic nowadays, but unfortunately not everyone is aware of their risks and contingency. With the HeartIn T-Shirt, heart frequencies can be monitored in real time in order to update the patient about any heartbeat alterations or abnormalities. According to HeartIn, bringing efficient electrocardiography may be keen to reduce the incidence of death caused by cardiovascular diseases. 

Many parents might feel concerned whether they should call a pediatrician every time their kids have a cold. StethoMe™ is the first medical diagnostic device that monitors the respiratory system and measures body temperature with accuracy! Moreover, it brings benefits for both patients and physicians since it allows parents to examine their child from home and send the final results to the doctor – who will then decide what do to next. Pretty handy, right?

AiQ Smart Clothing likes to market their product to all kinds of people from health and fitness to extreme sports to home-care and healthcare. Their smart clothes are made in cooperation with KingsMetal Fiber, a company that is known for their fashion and functionality. Stainless steel yarn allows for flexibility and will stand up to any and all washing conditions.

Bio beat Watch, developed by Biobeat, monitors and measures 128 measurements per second. The great feature about this gadget is that is syncs automatically with Bio beat´s app and uploads the latest data gathered on the cloud. The data saved can be accessed anywhere and at any in an ease way. In this case, any patient will be able to understand the result and be triggered by a health decision-making action. And last but not least, caregivers can also monitor the data available on the cloud in real time. With that, they can intervene and contact the patient in case they identify any irregularities.

The way physicians practice medicine has been changing and the main aim is to alter fundamentally the nature of medical provision, focusing on improved physician care. With the help of wearable wireless sensor from BPMpathway, orthopaedic patients are now being discharged as early as the day of their surgery, with clinicians continuing to remotely monitor their recovery on a daily basis. BPMpathaway enables clinicians tailoring the patient’s post-operative support during their recovery in order to meet their individual needs. It also empowers the patient in an easy way to get actively involved in their rehabilitation.

According to a recent Global Burden of Disease study, over 334 million people worldwide suffer from asthma as a chronic disease. What many do not know is that asthma can be fatal and lead to serious consequences when not properly treated. ADAMM, by Health Care Originals, Inc., can provide you with Intelligent Asthma ManagementTM — automating management, increasing adherence and identifying precursor symptoms much earlier – giving caregivers peace of mind and improving asthmatics’ quality of life. Health Care Originals, Inc. (HCO) has been recognized globally as an innovator in the field of wearables, and have been called disruptive health care tech.

IDUN Technologies innovates sensors for health monitoring. The spin-off from ETH Zurich develops soft dry-stretchable electrodes for a comfortable and continuous monitoring of vital parameters. Their products makes use of an unique material composition as well as electrode architecture, that achieve state-of-the-art impedance values. Furthermore, motion artefacts and skin discomfort are diminished, allowing a more thorough analysis through better data acquisition.

Do you feel like meeting these and other inventive companies in person? Don´t miss your opportunity and register here for the 28th WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2018 EUROPE in Munich on January 30th and 31st.

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