The development of electronics technology is gaining importance in helping e-medicine assist patients facing the challenges that daily life activities represent, especially for people affected by their neural system malfunctioning. Unfortunately, the great physicist, Stephen Hawking, has suffered of such an illness during his life:
“Stephen Hawking (January 8, 1942 to March 14, 2018) was a British scientist, professor and author who performed groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology, and whose books helped to make science accessible to everyone. At age 21, while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).” (Source: BIOGRAPHY)
Many patients may be helped by the recent progress in medicine through the usage of the electronics technology. (see Figure 1):
“A small device to train cooperative hand movements in post-stroke patients at home is ready for application. The main achievements of the firm’s innovation concern an extended understanding of the “neural coupling” mechanism underlying cooperative hand movements. The main novel observation concerns the modulation of neural coupling in different cooperative movements required during daily living tasks, from cutting bread to turning a screw. The firm has been researching the influence of a unilateral reduced sensation (by ischemia) on the neural coupling mechanism, with seemingly promising results. Patients benefit from our approach to addressing the “neural coupling mechanism “for patients who have had a stroke, so that the unaffected hemisphere supports the movement performance of the affected hand. Our newly developed small training device is designed to allow a training of cooperative movements at home. This makes rehabilitation more attractive. With this approach it is expected that an optimal outcome of hand function can be achieved after a stroke.
The firm is ready to begin testing the device in home rehabilitation of post-stroke subjects.”
The neural coupling mechanism is an interesting field of application of the electronics care program. (Source: eit Health)
The main advantage of utilizing electronics as a technology to validate an effective setup of medical assistance is evident, for example, in a recently released camera for arthroscopic rehabilitation post-surgery. (see Figure 2):
Artificial intelligence in smart electronics devices for personal care is the key to success of the e-health solution. The following Figure 3 shows the block diagram of an interesting electronics solution, the PDAU (Physiological Data Acquisition Unit):
The schematic diagram of the PDAU a “physiological data acquisition unit (PDAU) that in turn transmits these data to a remote monitoring center (RMC) for analysis”
What do you think this type of approach to e-medical care? Do you think it is an effective method?