Wearable blood pressure monitor
Omron Healthcare displayed HeartGuide, the first wearable blood pressure monitor. Designed in the form of a wristwatch, the device measures blood pressure using “oscillometric technology, which is the FDA-recognized standard for accurate, automated, medical-grade blood pressure measurement,” the company stated. This summer, Omron will launch a new mobile app, Omron Connect 2.0. When paired with the HeartGuide monitor, the app will be like a “personal heart health coach” that provides users with heart health info, real-time coaching, and incentives for behavior change.

Doctor’s instrument in the patient’s hands
Everyone is talking telemedicine these days—but how do you check a patient’s heart or lungs through a screen? Enter MedWand, a handheld device that includes multiple diagnostic tools for the patient to perform and the doctor to view. The device includes attachments for evaluating the heart, lungs, blood oxygen level, nose/throat/mouth, and more. MedWand can also be used by home healthcare or emergency workers in the community, or by physicians or other clinicians in remote or inaccessible areas.

Health ‘breathalyzer’
Aidar Health show Mouth Lab, which is an amped-up breathalyzer that provides a snapshot of the user’s vital signs. When users breathe into the MouthLab mouthpiece, the multisensor device captures 10 or so health parameters—temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, etc—in less than a minute. Users can track their day-to-day and longitudinal data, but providers can also monitor the patient’s health trends, with an eye toward earlier intervention.

Glucose monitoring without skin pricks
Noninvasive blood glucose monitoring is the star of diabetes management. The prototype of Glutrac, a wearable is doing just that. The device has optical sensors that collect data using four monitoring methods—absorption spectroscopy, electrocardiography, photoelectric plethysmography, and dynamic metabolic heat monitoring. “Based on the collected signals, it builds user-specific models in the cloud to calculate the blood glucose levels,” the company explained. “It allows users to measure body data as needed anytime and anywhere, while automatically monitoring users’ health condition in real time.”

Headset for relieving chronic pain
Sana is a bio-therapeutic headset that uses pulsed light and sound to reduce or eliminate chronic pain, without drugs. Put the headset on and the device emits a complex pattern of light and sound impulses to “restore a balance in brain wave patterns,” according to the company. The developers said that results from their study in patients with fibromyalgia showed encouraging reductions in pain symptoms.