4. Wearable Tech Tomorrow
“Thus far, wearable tech has made the
greatest initial advances in medical, fitness
and military implementations. However, this
new industry is on its way to becoming a $6
billion dollar market by 2016”
(according to research firm IMS research)
5. Technology is ready
• Data sensors (Vital
Data, EEG, EKG, Insulin, Movement
recognition, many others)
• Mobile device data processing
• Blue Tooth Low Energy
6. Use of Sensor Data
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Personal analytics
Anomaly detection
Trending
Prediction
9. Challenges
• Amount of data generated by sensors
• What is important?
• Agregating data across different sensors
10. Common Mistakes
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Uploading of all data to the server
Uploading only in the medical office
Relying on single sensor measurements
Ignoring HIPAA
Stepping into FDA territory without app
approval
• BT power drain (before BT LE)
11. Performing Data Analysis next to
sensors
• Data filtering on the sensor itself (before
getting to the phone)
• Algorithms for the mobile device
• Uploading only the most critical info to server
12. Security and Data Protection
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PHI and PII
What is covered by HIPAA
Where FDA steps in
How to protectd senitive data
13. Sensors
• Sensors attached to the body
• Sensors embedded into the phone
• External sensors (like weight scales and body
fat sensors)
15. Applications
• Data analysis on server
• Task/activity oriented mobile and web
applications
• Medical office applications
• Caregiver/relatives applications
• Analytics applications
16. Sensor Discovery
• Will be many sensors attached to human body
• Each sensor is capable of generating several data
streams (ex: EKG, temperature, posture)
• Multiple sensor measure the same values but
precision may vary
• Sensors may be on and off
• Accurate inventory of available data streams is
important – discovery and periodic
• inventory updates are critical
18. Applying techniques and
techniques of computer health
monitoring to human health
monitoring
• Similar challenges?
• Humans are different from computers but
both produce large amount of actionable data
• Open source monitoring and notification
– Nagios?
