{"id":914,"date":"2020-02-01T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/?p=914"},"modified":"2023-11-20T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:44:31","slug":"digital-medicine-the-future-of-modern-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/digital-medicine-the-future-of-modern-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital medicine \u2013 The Future of modern medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Feeling chest pains? Check what your shirt says.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gary Sagiv, Senior Director of Business Development and deputy CEO of the Health Watch<\/strong> Corporation, is gazing into the distance: “Digital medicine is the future of modern medicine. I see it repeatedly all around the world. Digital medicine enables the transfer of a person’s health management to himself. I sincerely hope that this future will be realized soon. Our luck in Israel is that we live in the clouds: so many clever people, so much good will, so much Israeli technology. We should be proud of our achievements here. We will manage the world.”A Wearable E.C.G<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Health Watch is a start-up company that developed a product called MasterCaution \u2013 a digital shirt that constitutes a platform for any sensor with which we want to measure physical information. “The shirt which we are near the final development of, includes sensors that monitor heart activity and body temperature. This is presently the only technology in the world that allows the wearing of a shirt with 12 E.C.G leads without cables.”
“How does it work? Take for example, an elderly man at home who feels unwell but doesn’t want to go to the doctor. He can wear the shirt, press the button, measure E.C.G and send the data via the internet directly to his physician or to our telephone center. The response is instantaneous: ‘Everything is O.K.’, ‘You should visit your doctor in the next few days’, or ‘Go to the hospital now’. The whole process takes approximately 51 minutes. By contrast, in reality, 80% of the people who arrive at the hospital emergency room due to chest pains, do not suffer from a cardiological problem. This is a waste both the hospital’s time and that of the individual.”<\/p>\n\n\n