A Personal Healthcare Consultant in Your Pocket
January 15, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and Google, engineers at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ) are developing a pocket-sized “mobile personal health consultant” that combines monitoring and guidance for wellness. Data collection is automated from wearable sensors; transmission goes to a smart phone which then can activate guidance advice for maintaining optimal health. MORE