Ehealth Overview of health innovations – Part. 2

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From January 8 to 11, the big innovation show takes place in Las Vegas: the CES (Consumer Electronic Show). Overview of the continuation of announcements in the field of health.

Samsung launches Bot Care, a health home health assistant

Samsung took advantage of CES 2019 to unveil its range of robots, including Bot Care, its health assistant. It is a robot with a screen that displays information about its owner’s health status statistics. The user can place their finger on a sensor placed under the screen and obtain their blood pressure live, read aloud by the robot. It is also possible to configure Bot Care to send a report to a loved one or their doctor. In the event of an emergency, the robot can also notify local emergency services. The robot is also able to monitoring its owner's sleep and recommend personalized exercises or stretches.

La Poste strengthens its e-health offer and presents 3 innovations

After the ADEL application, presented in a previous post, La Poste unveiled 2 new health innovations. The first, developed with Cerba Healthcare laboratories, is a mobile application to collect and store all of its medical analyzes. The documents are presented in PDF format or with a structured format in order to generate graphs and monitoring curves, for example. The second, carried out in partnership with the IHU in Strasbourg, is an application intended for bariatric surgery and hyper obesity. It is accompanied by a suitcase of smart health connected objects: oximeter, sphygmomanometer, smart health connected balance, smart health connected bracelet, etc. Objective: allow a patient to benefit from medical monitoring when he returns to his health home and to be able to interact with distance from health professionals.

URGOnight officially presented at CES 2019

URGOTECH, startup of the Urgo group, specialized in neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence applied to health. officially unveiled URGONight at CES in Las Vegas. This is a brain training helmet that allows everyone to regain control of their sleep. URGONight is the fruit of 4 years of research and development with European sleep and neuroscience specialists (doctors, researchers, engineers). It is used during the day to train your brain to sleep better at night. It is a non-invasive solution. Thanks to a miniaturized EEG system, the user visualizes his brain activity in real time and has access to training protocols validated by doctors.

Omron HeartGuide: the first wearable oscillometric sphygmomanometer

The world's first wearable oscillometric blood pressure monitoring was presented at CES 2019: The HeartGuide from OMRON Healthcare. Available in Europe by the end of 2019, this device has a smart health watch format and incorporates the same technology as the blood pressure monitors used by doctors around the world, unlike the sensor technology used by other wearable devices and which cannot provide than estimates of blood pressure.

 

Gong: learning to speak again through gamification

Designed by speech therapists, patients and loved ones, the Gong application is presented at CES 2019 on the La Poste stand. This application published by the company SameSame, allows through games and challenges to stimulate people with aphasia. The application integrates and adapts the same principles as a classic game application, with different player profiles: the social player will be receptive to interactions, the independent will like to take on personal challenges while the adventurer will be more sensitive to novelty.

StreetCo, the pedestrian GPS that facilitates the movement of people with reduced mobility

With its collaborative pedestrian GPS, StreetCo wants to help people with reduced mobility find the best route. "StreetCo allows everyone to report temporary or permanent obstacles such as stairs, steep slopes or work, which they encounter in their daily trips and which can impact the movements of people with reduced mobility“, Explains Arthur Alba, co-founder of the start-up with Cyril Koslowski. StreetCo takes advantage of CES to study the American market and think about a possible evolution of its strategy outside France. But the show is especially for the start-up the opportunity to strengthen its visibility on the French market.

Sources: Digital Factory, Urgo, Omron

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