MobiHealth News April 29, 2020
Stony Brook University experts describe key design points for a successful in-home senior-health-monitoring system, and their efforts to develop such a tool.
The shift toward “aging in place” has been fueled by a range of health monitoring technologies – fall-detection pendants, emergency alert systems, fingertip blood pressure monitors, ECG patches and so on. But the senior population has needs and preferences unique from the general population, creating a home health monitoring challenge that can’t simply be solved by sending them home with clinical-grade monitors or even consumer-friendly wearables.
“There are a lot of problems with these,” Fan Ye, an associate professor at the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, said during a recent HIMSS20 online seminar....
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