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Sensors And Contextual Health Essay

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Sensors & Contextual Health

“Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information - David Blumenthal”

Sensors with context are core of IoT (Internet of Things) momentum and sensors are going to detect events or changes in the environment. The environment could be your home, city, park, factory, mall or a human body. Sensors could detect changes in your body, blood or tears and warn us about the diseases like diabetes, heart attack or cancer in advanced stages. There are lot of wearables that are equipped with sensors can bring context to the mix to save lives or increase life span.

iTBra - early detection technology for breast cancer
A smart bra, known as iTBra from Cyrcadia health consists of two wearable breath patches which detect circadian temperature changes with in the breast tissue. Temperature measurements are sequentially taken over time and anonymized data obtained from the smart bra is communicated to the Cyrcadia servers via smart phone. Cyrcadia’s machine learning software, a series of algorithms categorize abnormal circadian patterns associated with the state of cancer.

Smart patches are designed to be worn under any brassiere and can detect early signs of cancer at home, without radiation (no mammograms or ultrasound screenings). A breast cancer examination could be completed by wearing the patches for 2 to 12 hours. So far it has been tested on 200 patients and it

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