big future ahead for ubi

Was just going through some of my recent biotech research documents this morning and revisited the following presentation at a telecommunications conference held in Auckland, NZ and presented by Dr Hugh Bradlow, Chief Technology Officer of Telstra.

Bio sensors looks to be a health trend well worth keeping a close eye on in the investment world... well worth the read. If what Telstra with this acquired Cloud system has been experimenting on lately is anything to go by, bio sensors very soon will become the shining star.
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"Healthcare is another area which is going to be dramatically changed, so we've already been experimenting with remote consultations, you have a trolley like the one in the middle here that goes to the patients bedsides. You have a paramedic who is operating the trolley, but the details of the patient, their bio signs and their video in high definition is going back to the hospital at base, and the physician there is actually directing the patient care.

Now the other big thing that'll happen is as we have a aging population, keeping people - letting them - age gracefully in their own homes is going to become increasingly important, and there are a couple of things that will happen there. The one is the homes themselves will become smarter, and know about people in the home and be able to detect things like whether a person has fallen or not. But the individuals themselves will be much more carefully monitored, so you can think of things like bio sensors measuring blood glucose, blood oxygen, blood pressure, heart rate. Those things are all coming into play as we speak, and increasingly being able to do what were previously invasive measurements like blood sugar monitoring, being able to do that non-invasively and automatically.