Are You Encouraged by the Capabilities of Medical Sensors and Stretchable Electronics?

Many wireless-monitor products today track daily activity, including a person's steps and calories burned. Wearable sensors, and even internal ones, however, may also be used to monitor one's specific biological processes. "Stretchable electronics," for example, can placed on (or in) a user's body to measure heart rate, brain activity, body temperature, and hydration levels. A company called Sano Intelligence, too, will try to use needle sensors on skin patches to gain continous information about one's bloodstream. Other vendors have similar technologies that aim to monitor biological processes and collect important health data. In the future, that data could be shared between customers and healthcare providers, which may be helpful to patients, but concern those who want to keep that data private.