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- November 26, 2012
- 10:45 PM
- 187 views
Close your eyes and tap your heels
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
GPS shoes can point to where you're going, but how will they know where to go? By consulting the map uploaded via USB and its own GPS receivers, wirelessly communicating with each other. For future models, you could probably set up WiFi to let your shoes download more information, talk with other people's shoes and modify your route on the go. So your footware might need its own network access, like agent Maxwell Smart's left shoe with a mobile subscription plan. The "No place like home" shoes a........ Read more »
Yu F, Bilberg A, Stenager E, Rabotti C, Zhang B, & Mischi M. (2012) A wireless body measurement system to study fatigue in multiple sclerosis. Physiological measurement, 33(12), 2033-2048. PMID: 23151461
Marschollek, M., Rehwald, A., Wolf, K., Gietzelt, M., Nemitz, G., zu Schwabedissen, H., & Schulze, M. (2011) Sensors vs. experts - A performance comparison of sensor-based fall risk assessment vs. conventional assessment in a sample of geriatric patients. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1), 48. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-11-48
- September 26, 2012
- 01:38 AM
- 283 views
Mirror, Mirror on the wall, Am I healthy after all?
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
Health gadgets continue to evolve in many forms and shapes - from something that fits in your pocket to something that is wearable or walkable. Everyday objects are turning into "Smart objects", building the foundation for the next version of the Internet. And it's not all smoke and mirrors. So let's talk about mirrors. Fairy tales and science fiction stories often pave the way to real world technology. Magic mirrors have been used in Snow White and Harry Potter's world. Now you can get one, too........ Read more »
Poh MZ, McDuff DJ, & Picard RW. (2010) Non-contact, automated cardiac pulse measurements using video imaging and blind source separation. Optics express, 18(10), 10762-74. PMID: 20588929
Li F, Zhao C, Xia Z, Wang Y, Zhou X, & Li GZ. (2012) Computer-assisted lip diagnosis on traditional Chinese medicine using multi-class support vector machines. BMC complementary and alternative medicine, 12(1), 127. PMID: 22898352
- June 24, 2012
- 12:35 AM
- 358 views
Cars That Care
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
Health technology of the future promises an easy life with no interruption in your daily activities. For example, information about your health could be collected while you're driving. A car is already viewed as a health platform and wellness coach by leading manufacturers. How would this work?To begin with, by measuring our heart rate. The electrocardiographic (ECG) seat built by Ford is based on studies of sensors in beds for intensive care units. Unlike traditional monitoring systems, it does........ Read more »
Wartzek T, Eilebrecht B, Lem J, Lindner HJ, Leonhardt S, & Walter M. (2011) ECG on the road: robust and unobtrusive estimation of heart rate. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering, 58(11), 3112-20. PMID: 21824839
Doherty ST, & Oh P. (2012) A multi-sensor monitoring system of human physiology and daily activities. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 18(3), 185-92. PMID: 22480300
- December 9, 2011
- 11:25 AM
- 488 views
Can Software help Health care?
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
Apps, apps and more apps. Software is everything and everything runs on software. Almost every industry in the U.S. has been disrupted by software. The health care field is not one of them. Easily accessible consumer information makes everyone a little bit doctor. Emerging portable diagnostic devices will strengthen the transition. Are we up to it? Not yet. ... Read more »
Archer N, Fevrier-Thomas U, Lokker C, McKibbon KA, & Straus SE. (2011) Personal health records: a scoping review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 18(4), 515-22. PMID: 21672914
- December 17, 2010
- 07:55 PM
- 733 views
Danger, Will Robinson!!! or injury prevention with sensors and algorithms
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
Injuries are most likely to be perceived as “acts of fate”, but they depend on the same determinants as other health factors: individual behavior, social and physical environment. The likelihood of injuries - unintentional ones and those caused by acts of violence - can be computed from physical location, gene-environment interactions, prior medical history, and physical traits. There are many ways to prevent injuries - just say "no" to risky behaviors, wear preventative gear while p........ Read more »
Swanenburg J, de Bruin ED, Uebelhart D, & Mulder T. (2010) Falls prediction in elderly people: a 1-year prospective study. Gait , 31(3), 317-21. PMID: 20047833
- October 12, 2010
- 10:45 PM
- 602 views
You are the Chosen One, at least by your bacteria
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
Host genomics is not the main decision-making factor for bacteria immigrating into human body, but it is an important factor. Two papers recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences help to understand why you are chosen and how the choosers make their decisions. ... Read more »
Ben-Jacob E, & Schultz D. (2010) Bacteria determine fate by playing dice with controlled odds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(30), 13197-8. PMID: 20660309
Andrew K. Benson,, Scott A. Kelly,, Ryan Legge,, Fangrui Ma,, Soo Jen Low,, Jaehyoung Kim,, Min Zhang,, Phaik Lyn Oh,, Derrick Nehrenberg,, Kunjie Hu,.... (2010) Individuality in gut microbiota composition is a complex polygenic trait shaped by multiple environmental and host genetic factors . PNAS. info:/
- August 15, 2010
- 04:25 PM
- 639 views
Predicting catastrophic health events - noninvasively and short term
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
"I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours". These were famous words of the almighty computer HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Few of us believe too much in software forecasts - be it weather, earthquakes or computer hard disk failures. Yet, we all know that sometimes it works. And such systems are very valuable, assuming they continuously improve. ... Read more »
Hsia, J., Larson, J., Ockene, J., Sarto, G., Allison, M., Hendrix, S., Robinson, J., LaCroix, A., Manson, J., & , . (2009) Resting heart rate as a low tech predictor of coronary events in women: prospective cohort study. BMJ, 338(feb03 2). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b219
Mayo Clinic. (2009) High resting heart rate could predict heart attack in women. Mayo Clinic women's healthsource, 13(7), 3. PMID: 19498326
Froelicher VF, Duarte GM, Oakes DF, Klein J, Dubach PA, & Janosi A. (1988) The prognostic value of the exercise test. Disease-a-month : DM, 34(11), 677-735. PMID: 3056676
Sheward WJ, Naylor E, Knowles-Barley S, Armstrong JD, Brooker GA, Seckl JR, Turek FW, Holmes MC, Zee PC, & Harmar AJ. (2010) Circadian control of mouse heart rate and blood pressure by the suprachiasmatic nuclei: behavioral effects are more significant than direct outputs. PloS one, 5(3). PMID: 20339544
- July 17, 2010
- 10:30 PM
- 662 views
Collaboration 2.0
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
Information technology is letting people around the world come together in unprecedented ways. Wikis, blogs and microblogs like twitter, crowdsourcing and crowd-task-solving sites continue to flatten the planet. Scientific innovation used to be a private endeavor, with very narrowly specialized scientists. The Internet changed some of this but there is plenty of room for improvement.... Read more »
Johnston SC, & Hauser SL. (2009) Crowdsourcing scientific innovation. Annals of neurology, 65(6). PMID: 19562693
Wright MT, Roche B, von Unger H, Block M, & Gardner B. (2010) A call for an international collaboration on participatory research for health. Health promotion international, 25(1), 115-22. PMID: 19854843
Marsh A, Carroll D, & Foggie R. (2010) Using collective intelligence to fine-tune public health policy. Studies in health technology and informatics, 13-8. PMID: 20543334
Huss JW 3rd, Lindenbaum P, Martone M, Roberts D, Pizarro A, Valafar F, Hogenesch JB, & Su AI. (2010) The Gene Wiki: community intelligence applied to human gene annotation. Nucleic acids research, 38(Database issue). PMID: 19755503
Butler, D. (2010) Open-source science takes on neglected disease. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/news.2010.50
- July 14, 2010
- 08:00 PM
- 523 views
Sit less, Move more
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
I am typing this standing in front of my computer. My tall chair is aside. About a year ago I discovered that life is better if I stand while working some of the time. Then I found out that other people discovered it too, and more keep discovering. We hear it often: eat less and exercise. But this may not be enough. As shown in a recent study, exercise does not counteract the ill effects of sedentary lives, we should keep moving throughout the day too. New York Times article about th........ Read more »
WARREN, T., BARRY, V., HOOKER, S., SUI, X., CHURCH, T., & BLAIR, S. (2010) Sedentary Behaviors Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men. Medicine , 42(5), 879-885. DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181c3aa7e
Dunstan, D., Barr, E., Healy, G., Salmon, J., Shaw, J., Balkau, B., Magliano, D., Cameron, A., Zimmet, P., & Owen, N. (2010) Television Viewing Time and Mortality: The Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab). Circulation, 121(3), 384-391. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.894824
Katzmarzyk PT, Church TS, Craig CL, & Bouchard C. (2009) Sitting time and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 41(5), 998-1005. PMID: 19346988
KATZMARZYK, P., CHURCH, T., CRAIG, C., & BOUCHARD, C. (2009) Sitting Time and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. Medicine , 41(5), 998-1005. DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181930355
- July 3, 2010
- 07:03 PM
- 444 views
Microbial sequencing for food applications is gaining momentum, but challenges remain
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
Microbes give us the great variety of tasty food, but not all of them are harmless. Genome sequencing of microorganisms started to bring practical benefits to the field of microbial food safety. The technology is still not as readily available and inexpensive as needed for practical applications, but a few pilot projects have showed a promise. ... Read more »
Ward TJ, Evans P, Wiedmann M, Usgaard T, Roof SE, Stroika SG, & Hise K. (2010) Molecular and phenotypic characterization of Listeria monocytogenes from U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service surveillance of ready-to-eat foods and processing facilities. Journal of food protection, 73(5), 861-9. PMID: 20501037
Van Stelten A, Simpson JM, Ward TJ, & Nightingale KK. (2010) Revelation by single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping that mutations leading to a premature stop codon in inlA are common among Listeria monocytogenes isolates from ready-to-eat foods but not human listeriosis cases. Applied and environmental microbiology, 76(9), 2783-90. PMID: 20208021
St-Gelais D, Lessard J, Champagne CP, & Vuillemard JC. (2009) Production of fresh Cheddar cheese curds with controlled postacidification and enhanced flavor. Journal of dairy science, 92(5), 1856-63. PMID: 19389943
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