| One of the most beneficial aspects of increasing | | | | possible problems and understand how to prevent |
| technology is our ability to have better medicine and | | | | them earlier on. Currently the most common reason |
| a greater chance of saving lives. Medical technology is | | | | for hospital patients being submitted is heart failure. |
| constantly progressing and the more it progresses | | | | With the help of this new wireless technology, people |
| the lower our chance of dying after an incident | | | | will be able to monitor all the necessary aspects of |
| becomes. | | | | the heart so they can know when problems may |
| One of the amazing things about technology is the | | | | arise. This technology is not only expected to save |
| new explosion if wireless communication. Mobile | | | | us massive amounts of money, but large amounts of |
| phones are now a vital carry along item for many. | | | | lives as well. |
| The applications they have allow us to do a large | | | | Beyond the necessity based aid this technology |
| number of tasks with a greater efficiency. Now what | | | | gives, there will also be interesting perks that come |
| we are seeing is a cross over from the medical world | | | | along with it. A prototype for a sleep monitor has |
| into the use of wireless technology. | | | | been released that tells you how well you slept at |
| Imagine a world where everything you needed to | | | | night. You have to wear a head band like device, but |
| know about yourself you could see from your mobile | | | | it tells you which levels of sleep you got the most in |
| phone. As you drive to work, you can check an app | | | | and how you should expect to feel. It would also |
| that shows you your heart rate, stress level, how | | | | display on it if you're sleeping or not, so you cannot |
| well you slept, etc. This is already in the works and | | | | trick someone into thinking you're asleep because all |
| prototypes have already been created. Through | | | | they have to do is look at the monitor. |
| wireless technology, people are going to be able to | | | | We are seeing more and more devices like this pop |
| wear something as small as a band-aid that gives | | | | up and the end result will only be positive. We can |
| them all the necessary bodily information they could | | | | help save massive amounts of dollars by predicting |
| want to know about themselves. This is expected to | | | | possible problems before they arise, as well as be |
| greatly reduce the amount of bed ridden hospital | | | | able to monitor ourselves and our internals while |
| patients. What they expect is that if these graphs | | | | doing any activity. On top of this, it is expected to |
| can give us all the information we need to know | | | | save the health care system billions of dollars. |
| about our internal workings, we can better predict | | | | |