Get Inspired series

Here are the important research happening in healthcare technology  that can get us inspired to find solutions to other related problems:
1. Detecting sleep stages using wifi RF signals - see how this works: http://sleep.csail.mit.edu/ 

As you can see, its all about Deep learning  algorithm that is being  developed to detect sleep stages that can  further be correlated to different health  conditions. It  definitely  inspires us to figure out  what other health conditions can be found without the need of a sensor that human needs to wear. This also raises questions that  whether future is bleak for wearable sensor devices?

2. Contact lenses that deliver drugs directly to the eye - A company called TheraOptix won the prestigious MIT Sloan Healthcare innovation prize yesterday. http://news.mit.edu/2018/contact-lenses-deliver-drugs-directly-eye-sloan-healthcare-innovations-prize-0309

This is a big breakthrough as the lenses can deliver medicine in a very controlled and sustained manner. 

Is this innovation leading us to new way of delivering medications to the body? Are we going  to have a patch on our body controlled diabetic medicine that we do not have  to remember to take 3 times a day? 

3. Data + cloud + powerful networks + reinforcement learning = Healthcare Innovation

This is what  Eric Schmidt of Alphabet  is saying. Google is making big bets on healthcare innovation with Calico  Labs (research on aging) and Verily 

One thing  is clear that the  focus is on health data collection and timely analysis to solve variety of problems. These initiatives are guaranteed to bring  healthcare costs down in America and elsewhere.  For example, many projects in the  CGM (continuous glucose monitoring) field:

a)  Look at  the glucose-sensing lens for continuous monitoring of glucose levels.

https://verily.com/projects/sensors/smart-lens-program/

b) Miniaturized CGM: https://verily.com/projects/sensors/miniaturized-gcm/