Google is working on a medical bracelet tracker

Secret unit Google began work on innovative medical bracelet tracker. The gadget will receive information about the patient's condition, process, and send them to your doctor, According to Bloomberg.

Bracelet, which is working on Google X, will not only collect data on host activity, as do conventional trackers: Fitbit, Jawbone UP and others. The device will be every minute to collect information on vital signs (temperature, pressure, heart rate), process the data and send doctors. As Google noted that the gadget can not buy everyone: the bracelet will be delivered to clinics and medical staff will write a prescription for its use.

We focused on how to create a medical device that can be used in the treatment of people and testing of new medicines.

Andy Conrad, Google X

As Bloomberg pointed out that the idea of ​​such a bracelet is not new, and health monitoring technology develops more than one company (for example, Apple ResearchKit). However, modern devices and the software is not yet able to comprehensively analyze the data that is collected through the wristbands and smart sensors. Gadget from Google will be able to become the first universal device that collects and interprets data on the health of the user.

Andy Conrad, head of Google Division, a leading work on the bracelet, argues that this gadget 20-30 years old will be diagnosed each inhabitant of the planet remotely and prevent disease in the early stages. Recall that Google X once worked on contact lenses for diabetics and a car with the autopilot.