MWC 2018: main health announcements

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At the end of February, the big mobile show took place in Barcelona: the Mobile World Congress. Overview of health announcements.

Temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, blood pressure… The latest Motorola “Mod” is capable of measuring all this data at the same time, in less than two minutes, and just with our finger. Announced at CES 2018, this new extension for Moto Z was therefore on display at MWC 2018. According to Jim Thiede, marketing manager at Motorola, this is the “first platform for monitoring health system integrated into a single instrument ”. This device looks like a small cylinder where you just have to slide your finger: an infrared temperature sensor, an oximeter and a miniature cuff allow you to measure the heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, quantity of oxygen in blood (SpO2), body temperature and systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​Samsung presented an application developed in partnership with the UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), available on the Galaxy S9 allowing to measure at any time of the day the level real stress. Called My BP Lab (BP for blood pressure), the application interprets the readings of its blood pressure level to assess in real time the state of its nerves via in particular photo sensors and the biometric authentication scanner. By image, it is able to measure the blood flow, without having to go through a device like a smart health connected watch or a heart rate monitoring. It can be used at key times of the day: getting up, going to bed, before and after sports, at the end of work, etc. The My BP Lab app will be available on the Google Play Store on March 15, but only in the United States initially.

During its annual conference at the Mobile World Congress, Nokia gave some details on the future which it reserves for its pole "Digital Health". The review of strategic options launched in the Health cluster "does not diminish our ability to play a role in the B2B healthcare market, in the industrial segment, with monitoring products, links between doctors and patients…“, He said. "We could take a different path for the general public health activity, but the B2B activity, patient monitoring, wi-fi for health establishments, products for health home monitoring… all this is promising ”. An announcement that follows previous communications from the group that wants to refocus its health activity on B2B, more than B2C.

After the CES in January, SimforHealth was once again selected by HTC to appear on its stand at the MWC in Barcelona to highlight e-health. SimforHealth offers an immersive, interactive and collaborative solution for training healthcare professionals with a virtual reality headset. A presence that allows Bordeaux society to open up internationally. "It’s a win-win partnership. SimforHealth brings us its business knowledge and, for our part, we help them to accelerate their international development, thanks to our network and by giving them visibility on our stands in trade fairs“, Underlines Hervé Fontaine, vice-president of HTC Vive, in charge of the development of the professional market in Europe. "This partnership allows us to change dimension and opens up markets in Asia, where we have for example signed contracts with four Chinese hospitals“, Rejoices Jérôme Leleu, president of Interaction Healthcare.

Sources: mashable, Clubic, Usine Digitale

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