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Colleagues,

As reported in Medical News Today ... GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced that scientists have transformed a common and commercially available GE sensor for home security into an innovative, intelligent wireless medical sensing platform. If successful, this new platform could dramatically improve neonatal and home patient monitoring.

GE researchers have developed sophisticated signal processing algorithms for a wireless sensor that can classify different types of motion and closely monitor a person's breathing and heart rate ... GE's new sensor could wirelessly monitor an infant's movements, including breathing and heart rate. Similarly, this sensor could be installed in a home for elder care or other outpatient monitoring...

GE's wireless sensing research is all part of the company's Early Health initiative, which is focused on enabling earlier diagnosis and more effective treatments of disease and other health-related issues...

Read on at: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141346.php

ENJOY!

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