With the neck patch in the fight against Corona
Until the development of a vaccine or effective medication, Corona will determine large parts of everyday life. This encourages researchers around the world to develop solutions that should make it easier to deal with the disease. The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago, together with researchers from Northwestern University, has now presented a wearable that is to be used in the treatment of corona patients. This is a kind of plaster that, according to the researchers, is applied to the neck of infected people and hospital staff, for example.The corona patch should be worn on the neck“The device can be worn around the clock, generates continuous data streams, and uses artificial intelligence to gain subtle but potentially life-saving insights,” said the researchers of their approach. To make this possible, the system can interpret the wearer’s breathing activities and coughing – this cannot be done with conventional monitoring systems. “So far, no one has collected this type of data,” said the researchers. “Earlier detection is always better and our devices offer important and unique functions in this context.”
Flexible and pliable …
… with integrated sensors
Data in the cloud
Once applied to the neck, the patch can use accelerometers to collect cough intensity and pattern, noticeable chest movements, breathing sounds, heart rate, and body temperature, including fever. Using the HIPAA protocol (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), this data can then be transmitted to a cloud server via smartphone & Co. The actual evaluation then takes place here. “This opens up new telemedical strategies because we don’t have to station patients for surveillance,” said the researchers.
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