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11.12.2014

If you are not a doctor, you are unlikely to feel love for going to the clinic. However, many doctors go there not at all out of love for their chosen profession and it is not for us to tell about it. It is possible to reduce visits by searching for answers on the Internet. Previously, for this they read the magazine "Health" or used the advice of grandmothers. But progress doesn't stand still, does it? New trends are sensors in smartphones and wearable electronics. Pulse, pressure, sweating intensity, primitive ECG - all this and much more, not yet implemented, will help to more accurately determine how you feel before visiting the doctor and, perhaps, completely postpone the visit.

The next level is more advanced systems for determining the physical and mental state of a person. To clarify, we are still talking about fairly inexpensive complexes, which in the future may be at home for everyone. A similar system was shown by Sharp at Semicon Japan 2014. This is a premium aircraft seat. The chair has a built-in set of sensors and a specialized computer system with a display. The data is taken and immediately analyzed with the output of the result in the form of understandable graphs or icons.

The armchair allows you to measure the mass, blood pressure, pulse rate, the state of the blood vessels (the pulse wave is being studied), as well as receive data on the state of the autonomic nervous system (about the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions). Cross-analysis and special processing of data for each parameter gives an approximate picture of the current state of health. The data can be sent to the Sharp cloud, where it can be compiled into a database for each person and analyzed by a medical specialist, sending the processed information back to the patient.

Sharp notes that the request for such a chair came from companies involved in servicing the elderly. But the scope of such complexes is much wider. They can be installed in gyms, fitness centers, in companies that care about the health of employees, in private hospitals and in public medical institutions. Preliminary demand for the development was so strong that the company will start selling the "health chair" in the first half of fiscal year 2015 (April to September 2015).

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