“The cell phone is perfect because it’s like a wrist watch you carry around, I think the idea of having access to electronic medical records is transformational in that it changes electronic medical records to be personal health records,” Sastry said. ”So I think that going forward there will be a huge consumer push to be able to both record and analyze data and the cell phones are gradually becoming not just a place for repository and also for analyzing data, but also as a distributive sensor network in the sense that the cell phone can interrogate other sensors which are attached to your body.”
“It’s reasonably easy for us to measure the [caloric] in-take — the out-take has always been way, way difficult, partly because we have such different metabolic rates,” Sastry said. “But I do think with the sensing though you do get a handle on those metabolic rates. So That I think is huge: To be able to then get sense of how much you are burning up in addition to how much you are taking in.”
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