Today I will look at the phrase Healthcare and Wellness



ST says...

http://www.st.com/web/catalog/apps/SE410

STMicroelectronics is focused on improving lives by providing enabling technology for an expanding list of healthcare and wellness applications in the fields of:-

•  Clinical Diagnostic and Therapy
•  Medical Imaging
•  Portable and Telehealth

Thanks to ST’s range of optimized process technologies providing capability we are able to design semiconductor devices with best-fit characteristics, and to provide the highest in quality and reliability.   In addition, our strong involvement in government-funded programs, the Continua Health Alliance, and our collaboration with international universities and leading global healthcare companies has provided us with strong partnerships for further engagement.
We address the healthcare market with a broad portfolio of standard devices, taking advantage of our high-voltage and low power capabilities where applicable, such as:-

•  Sensors and Motion MEMs (micro-electromechanical systems)
•  Dedicated front ends and drivers for various technologies of scanner
•  Communications ICs and Modules
•  Microcontrollers (Low Power, High-Performance, 8- and 32-bit)
•  Analog, Digital and Mixed-signal ICs
•  Discrete devices
•  Power Management
•  Memories

These things will mostly be wearables?  NOt smartphones as the wearables are cloer to take the measurements?

Sasung said this

AN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today launched a bold initiative aimed at directing the resources and innovation of the global technology industry toward empowering individuals to better manage their own health and wellness. The Samsung Digital Health Initiative is based on open hardware and software platforms that will accelerate the development of advanced sensors, algorithms, and data collection and analysis.

“Validation of these technologies will improve the quality of data collected and help advance the ability to bring new products to market quickly. UCSF is pleased to play an important role in this effort to focus increased technology resources on digital health.”

At an event at San Francisco’s SFJAZZ Center today, Samsung’s Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC) team demonstrated its open platform in a wearable wristband form factor, showing how devices based on this reference-design “blueprint” could be used to track measurements such as heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure. The company also demonstrated its open software architecture and how it could be used to collect data from a variety of sources, aggregate it and display it in a format allowing consumers to better understand what is taking place within their bodies.

The open platforms, combined with agreements like the one recently announced by Samsung and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to validate new technologies for personal health and wellness, are designed to help entrepreneurs bring innovative products to market more quickly.

“Samsung’s Digital Health Initiative provides an exciting opportunity for the brightest minds in the technology world to come together to develop the products that will, for the first time, put individuals in the driver’s seat in understanding their own health and wellness,” said Young Sohn, president and chief strategy officer, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics. “At a time when healthcare spending is at record levels and when the number of people over the age of 60 worldwide is expected to exceed more than 1.2 billion by 2025, digital health is an incredibly important area for innovation. We believe this initiative is an essential first step and we invite developers and partners across the globe to join us in creating the technologies of the future that will help make people’s lives healthier.”

So consider the vital signs as some of the early ones in this sector of sensors.

 heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure