Google embarks on the design of a medical tracker

Google is also embarking on the design of a smart health connected bracelet (not a watch). Unlike traditional wearables accessible to the general public, it will be specially dedicated to health and will collect data necessary for clinical trials and medical monitoring.

If at the moment activity trackers are all the rage after the general public, it is especially for the quantified self side. In other words, being able to quantify its activities, and in this field two names predominate on the market, FitBit and just behind, Xiaomi. By entering the small world of smart health connected bracelets, the American giant does not aim to compete directly with the products currently on the market. Google announced its project to focus only on health by developing a device capable of collecting a large amount of data, whether for clinical trials or for ensuring the medical follow-up of patients.

Data on users and their environment

The project for this device is born in the experimental group Google X, notably responsible for the biggest researches for innovations for the American giant, like Google Glass smart health connected glasses, driverless vehicles or even the Loon Project, whose goal is to develop internet access in the most remote areas of world. The smart health connected bracelet can monitoring heart rate, level of light exposure, noise level and skin temperature. These collections of data will therefore concern users and what surrounds them.

Google wants to make its bracelet much more precise than the technologies currently available on the market, with a better real-time information transmission to doctors. Bracelet tests should start this summer, as well as the process of obtaining regulatory approval so that the device can be used in the medical field, in partnership with academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies.

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