Samadi Picks: Latest Health Tech Innovations
/1. Smart pill bottles: Created by NY Based AdhereTech
- Helps patients track their meds
- Take them at the right time
- Bottle sends real-time alerts to secure online services and users
- When patient needs to take meds, bottle glows blue
- If it isn’t opened at the right time, it turns red and begins to beep
- Also sends text message or phone call alerts to smartphone
2. Wearbles: Fall Protection by ActiveProtective
- Smart garments: contain 3-D motion sensors detect falls
- If person’s activity deviates from the norm, indicating a fall, a micro-airbag deploys from the underwear to protect the wearer from injury
- The garment also issues a call for help.
3. Sleep Cycle Mobile App
- Analyzes sleep phase
- Monitors movement during sleep
- Triggers alarm to wake person up in lightest sleep phase during a 30-min window closest to your alarm time
4. Sharecare's Ask MD Mobile App
- App uses clinically proven research to answer any number of questions
- Diabetes
- Healthy eating
- Answers in regard to specific symptoms
- Determines emergency: If app detects person might be in critical or life-threatening danger, app will direct to closest emergency room near your location