Primary Source Material for this Blog Post: BloombergBusinessweek -- current issue:
Scout Medical Tricorder might be the big breakthrough we have all been
looking for. Does much of what a doctor
would do on an office visit – checks heart rate, temperature, blood pressure
and more. Put it to your head and it
picks up all the readings and transmits them to a smart phone for storage and
other purposes. $199,but not available
until 2014. It raised $1.7 million on a
crowd funding website, Indiegogo, and that set a record for a new product on that
funding site. .
EKG ECG check, $99. Cardiac
Designs , data can be shared with doctors, like an EKG in your pocket. Slips over an I Phone for the time you are
checking your heart.
http://cardiacdesigns.com/ It says it is the only FDA approved cardiac
checker for this application !
Telcare Blood Glucose Monitoring system, first for full use with
telephone, they say. Check this
out. $150. Allows remote monitoring by doctors.
Scan food in stores for nutrition information in
detail. Grades the product based on
science and took first place in the US Surgeon General’s healthy app competition
last year. Free for basic $4.99 for
advanced.
Leading mobile sensor for snapping onto inhalers. It will track when and how often asthma and
other respiratory conditions use their medications and can be shared with a
physician.
Wrist band for health and fitness monitoring
– an entrant in a very crowded field. Tracks sleep, activity and calories.
But it is also a heart rate monitor
that vibrates whenever the wearer is stressed. There is also a spectrometer that breaks down
the nutritional value of foods. You will
have to wait until 2014 for this one, but watch for it to, perhaps, make a big
splash in that crowded wrist monitoring market.
$150, taking pre-orders now.
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