Healthcare and Wearables

In the context of healthcare electronics, the advent of the wearable devices  and  the Internet of Things (IoTs) are going to revolutionize the age tested hospital system. The major challenge in modern healthcare services is to provide quality medical care  at affordable prices for the large number of seekers.  The emerging field of  low power electronics and the miniaturization of devices makes the wearable devices the best choice for personalized healthcare.

The concept level model for this system is to propagate the so called "health begins at home" . In other words this means to redistribute the load of the healthcare management to a wider community of health specialists, so that an equality of health related services is rendered. According to my broad (maybe vague) perception of medical field, each individual needs to undergo the three steps of Diagnosis (Prediction), Prescription and Prevention - which is easily remembered by the 3 P's. This is very similar to the analytics which our present day data scientists are familiar with. The model henceforth develops into a stronger hierarchy of medical institution, which now translates into home medicine, primary health centers,  general hospitals, speciality hospitals and research institutions in medicine. The goal in the mind of the IoT healthcare community is to come up with wearable systems (eg: gadgets) that may equip each individual to be better informed about their health status in tandem with the best in house medical doctors to be allocated 24 x 7. 

Vehicle automation towards self driving cars

In this age of machines, humans are going automatic.

Anyone who hears this is bound to believe, something is wrong. What is really meant by automation? The term automatic refers to an activity that is performed without a person to directly control it. So,  is the action performed really independent of the person who initiated the process? To analyse the scene further, what really is unknown in the automated system is the knowledge of the controller/ initiator. This is a game changer - how can one remove the knowledge of the controller and inscribe it on the product. These threads of questioning  suggests that in automation human involvement is hidden but not completely made invisible. The debate over automation being beneficial or not is present among many communities. The importance should thus focus upon whether a middle path between human resource and automated resource can be made. In the past we have witnessed technology playing a key role in changing human values and attitudes. The current attention in this post is to establish such a compromise approach to better utilize the current resources (human as well as machines/automated) to uphold the integral human values - viz - equality, environmental consciousness and human safety.

The current attention surrounding self driving cars is motivated by several human factors which makes the roads busy and unsafe. The reliability factor in such systems is the use of vehicular communication systems and efficient sensors. However, the main human factor in the cities is solo driving. So the natural question is if the effective use of the road real estate possible with vehicle automation. This needs not just automation, but some technology that can change the human attitude. One solution for this was given through the integrated transport app (in the blog post : Travelling that .. ). This article discusses one step ahead. The intend is to make possible  a system where the user can rely on his vehicle to reach the nearest public transport station and enable the car to self drive back home. In such a situation, people would be keen on better utilizing the existing infrastructure.