HIT and Diabetes

BIT 5564 Student (Anonymized for privacy) If you have diabetes, what's your main problem? It’s that you don't want to have to carry around a bulky glucose meter that is not only annoying but also a constant reminder that you are ill. Come to think of it, how sweet and easy it would be if your doctor had already received the information from a tiny device built into your cell phone, wallet, or undershirt? This kind of device could fundamentally change healthcare, you can't just hide vitals from your doctor—it's all there, recorded. The fact that Wearable computing facilitates a new form of human-computer interaction comprising a small body-worn computer (e.g. user-programmable device) that is always on and always ready and accessible is a special technological advancement toward healthcare. Surprisingly glucose sensor and bio sensor added to wearable computer will enable patients to gain real time information about their vital signs, glucose levels and other data bearing upon their health condition. Diabetic patients need to determine their blood sugar levels and manage their medication accordingly. Wearable computer is able to monitor diabetic patients’ health condition and glucose levels through the glucose sensor and biosensor. The design of this unique device is incredibly wonderful. Bio-Tex, a European firm developed bio-sensors for inclusion in wearable fabric or textile. These bio-sensors in a textile patch can analyze body fluids as small as tiny drop of sweat and provide an excellent assessment of someone’s health indicators. Bio-Tex probes using PH levels that are detected by a portable spectrometer device and that cause an indicator to change color. These PH sensors are used to monitor people with obesity and diabetes as well as athletes. Finally, new methods to monitor blood glucose levels are now available without the pain of finger poking to draw blood. With the new method, blood glucose levels are monitored using glucose sensing bio-implants and noninvasive technologies. In glucose sensing bio-implants, the sensor is embedded into the skin through a minor surgical implantation. There are several methods that usethese non-invasive technologies: urine glucose monitoring measuring the infra-red radiation emitted by the body, applying radio waves to the finger tips using ultra-sound and checking the thickness of fluids in tissue underneath the skin.