University of California San Diego engineers have developed a skin patch that can be worn on the neck to track blood pressure and heart rate while monitoring the user’s glucose, lactate, alcohol, or caffeine levels. Intertwined with concepts of telehealth, the Internet of medical things, and precision medicine, wearable sensors offer features to actively and remotely monitor physiological parameters, wrote the research team.
Wearable sensors can generate data continuously, without causing any discomfort or interruptions to daily activity, thus enhancing the self-monitoring compliance of the wearer and improving the quality of patient care, they continued.
According to the university, the engineers’ device is the first to monitor cardiovascular signals at the same time as multiple biochemical levels in the human body. By integrating different sensing modalities on a single flexible, skin-worn, tattoo-like patch, vulnerable patients – from neonates to the elderly – can leverage their monitoring device with minimal discomfort or obtrusiveness,” they wrote.
Source: Healthcare IT News
Name of Author: Kat Jercich