Grant Campany, Senior Director, Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, discusses the leading uses for wearable and ingestible medical sensors. According to Campany, these devices are particularly beneficial in monitoring body temperature, respiration, pulse, activity levels and sleep patterns. With ingestibles, opportunities data collection becomes simple and efficient3, allowing health care providers to see what is happening inside of a patient’s body, real-time.

Resources & References

– www.xprize.org/