Connected health

Making better health accessible, easier and more fun.

Staying in touch with a good state of health is often challenge. Connected health offers real-time options for self-aware healthcare that help to make patient monitoring, alerts and even drug delivery simpler, more streamlined, and more reliable. Bluetooth Low Energy devices are central to most modern connected health products offering connectivity to the smartphone and from the phone to the cloud. This allows patients and individuals to take care of themselves better and to help healthcare professionals assist, advise and intervene when it is most appropriate and necessary.

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Activity trackers

Activity trackers are a phenomenon bursting onto the scene less than 10 years ago, and today almost everyone has one. They are cool, fashionable and they offer the everyday-person a simple, fun means with which to assess their activity and exercise with goals and competition an integral part of how they are used. Bluetooth Low Energy was critical to enabling the activity tracker with ultra-low power communication over Bluetooth low energy to our smartphones. Today’s SoCs need to be very capable to meet the modern activity trackers needs, with outstanding energy efficiency, rich peripheral sets and compute power topping the list.

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Blood glucose measurement

The aim of diabetes treatment is to keep blood glucose levels within a targeted range. Personal blood glucose measurement devices have brought great peace of mind to those with diabetes. Today’s modern Bluetooth Low Energy SoCs and their high levels of integration have made single ship product implementation a possibility. This has made personal blood glucose monitoring more accessible to the masses and has brought relief to patients and busy doctors in equal measure as those with the condition can self-manage the own state of health more easily.

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Blood pressure measurement

Blood pressure monitors are now widely available as consumer products. Bluetooth Low Energy has helped to enabled this as it has with many health related products. Together with the smartphone you can simply connect and and give yourself a check-up. Nordic nRF52 Series SoCs offer all the computational performance, connectivity options and the energy efficiency required for creating compelling health monitoring products.

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BMI and scales

Management of weight and body composition is a first step in remaining healthy. Weight scales are not new, but modern connected weight scales can offer a rich delivering of information beyond simply weight. In conjuction with a smartphone they can communicate via Bluetooth Low Energy and help to make weight awareness and control an everyday and interesting activity. The nRF52 Series SoCs from Nordic offer all the features necessary to realize such products.

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Clinical health

Healthcare is a costly business, and an area where the ability to make care and procedure even more efficient is always welcomed. Bluetooth low energy is helping transform how hospitals and healthcare professionals monitor and treat patients whilst in their care. From allowing unobtrusive body worn sensors that can be checked on a smartphone or tablet, to reducing the number of wires a piece of equipment may have in a busy operating theatre, Bluetooth Low Energy is helping making hospital care better and more efficient.