Reducing the digital health divide with novel wearable communication system

In recent years, wearable devices that use sensors to monitor biological signals have played an important role in healthcare. Such devices collect information, and the data enables providers to predict, diagnose and treat a variety of conditions.
To address this aspect of the digital health divide, University of Arizona researchers have set out to change that with a wearable monitoring device system that can send health data up to 15 miles – much farther than Wi-Fi or Bluetooth systems can – without any significant infrastructure.
The wearable device and its communication system have the potential to aid remote monitoring in underserved rural communities, ensure high-fidelity recording in war zones, and monitor health in bustling cities.