October 19, 2018

Army enrolling volunteer units to test in-development automated triage tech

October 19, 2018/ John Morris

The US Army’s medical division has been building a mobile technology platform that will streamline triage and communications in the event of medical evacuations. The Medical Hands-free Unified Broadcast, or MEDHUB, initiative looks to leverage wearable sensors, accelerometers, and other FDA-cleared technology as a means for medics to more easily communicate with teams at a receiving field hospital during an emergency situation.

June 29, 2018

Little ‘toilet paper’ sensor detects heartbeats and blinks

June 29, 2018/ Ben Lippincott

Engineers used tissue paper—similar to toilet tissue—to make a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse or a blink of an eye.

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