Advanced Sensing Technologies for Healthcare Automation

The absence of an automated healthcare stems from the current system's reliance  on doctor visits and delayed test results. The long-term vision of my lab is to take steps towards  making healthcare more automated. This involves establishing sensors that continuously monitor  the health status of patients and advanced control algorithms that process this real-time data for  triggering the drug delivery. To reach this goal, we are developing advanced sensors for health  monitoring and better disease understanding, with the ultimate goal of creating a closed-loop  platform for healthcare automation. Our advancements introduce a new generation of polymeric  wearable systems for minimally invasive monitoring and treatment in outpatient settings. We also  develop technologies that enable continuous, real-time tracking of clinically important biomarkers,  an urgent need that cannot be accomplished using gold standard techniques. The new advances  reported in this talk, enrich the level of information that can be collected from different body fluids,  introducing novel diagnostic and monitoring tools for diverse diseases, signifying the first steps  towards a more automated healthcare.