Healthcare Analytics News August 20, 2018
Over the past few years, wearable technology has become ubiquitous among fitness freaks and many other people, too. Having an easy piece of tech that monitors heart rate, calories burned and activities is useful, but the next generation of the technology could do a lot more than that.
Researchers at Rutgers University–New Brunswick are working on a new system of wearable tech that expands the smartwatch into a far more functional medical device. In new research published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering, the researchers described a smart wristband capable of diagnosing everything from blood cancers to toxins in the air around the wearer.
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The “smart wristband,” as it’s called,...
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