Future of medical diagnostics- 2

GestureTek Health products and systems use virtual sports and environments for patient therapy for physically and cognitively challenged patients, including those with cerebral palsy, autism, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, as well as those recovering from stroke, traumatic brain injury, and other disabilities. GestureTek's Interactive Rehabilitation and Exercise system (IREX), including IREX Avatar and IREX soccer, captures and places a patient's image into a virtual sport or game environment, where they are guided through clinically prescribed therapeutic exercise regimens. Image courtesy of GestureTek

GestureTek's Immersive Therapy Cart is a portable gesture control unit. It provides over 20 different immersive gesture-based games and activities, including music therapy, games, and sensory stimulation. Image courtesy of GestureTek.

The Aerotel application runs on a mobile phone and provides functions that monitor a patient remotely. Patients can use up to 4 wireless devices simultaneously at home and transmit information to the Aerotel monitoring center. The application collects data from devices that are monitoring blood pressure, weight, blood glucose, respiratory peak flow, and ECG. The monitoring center conveys the information to the physician's or caregiver's or patient's computer. Made by Aerotel Medical Systems. Image courtesy of Aerotel Medical Systems.

The Health Buddy® System, with a wireless modem option, connects patients at home to their providers. It also educates, motivates, and encourages medication and lifestyle compliance. Patient use the appliance to answer daily questions about their health and well being. The Health Buddy® Desktop offers providers Web-based patient management tools to remotely manage patients with chronic illnesses. These tools offer trends, risk stratification, and the ability to efficiently monitor large groups of patients. The Health Buddy® appliance contains ports for multiple medical devices. By Bosch Healthcare. Image courtesy of Bosch Healthcare.

To help promote patient compliance, engineering researchers at the University of Florida, Gainesville, have added a microchip with a digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. With this prototype, when the patient swallows the capsule, the device can alert doctors and caregivers that the patient has taken his or her medication. The capsule is coated with a label embossed with silvery lines comprising the antenna. The silvery lines are printed using ink made of nontoxic, conductive silver nanoparticles. When a patient ingests the capsule, it sends a signal to a small electronic device worn by the patient. That device transmits a signal to a cell phone or laptop, which then communicates to caregivers. The patient's stomach acid eventually breaks down the antenna. Image courtesy of University of Florida, Gainesville.

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