eWatch - Extensive Personal Monitoring & Watch Platform

From 01-09-2016 to 31-08-2019

Description

The ageing population and related increase in chronic diseases put considerable pressure on both the healthcare system and the society, resulting in an unsustainable rise of healthcare costs. Each year over 4 million deaths are caused by cardiac diseases only throughout the world. More than 100 million can conduct their life after a heart attack and there are 30 million of people who suffer from arrhythmia and other cardiac and cardiovascular disorders according to the WHO – World Health Organization, 2014. The cost for treatments associated with these diseases is about 650 billion per year.

Wearable health monitoring systems provide a big promise in allowing individuals to closely monitor changes in her or his vital signs and provide feedback to regain or maintain an optimal health status. Monitoring hearth rate, blood pressure and blood glucose, oxygen saturation, physical activity and other physiological parameters will minimize the treatment cost and enhance the quality of life.

The overall goal of the eWatch project is to provide an extensive human centric, personal monitoring platform.

Team

• Sabine Van Huffel, Promoter
• Steven Vandeput, Team member

Financing

Funding: IWT - Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie 

Program/Grant Type: IWT O&O - IWT Industrial R&D projects