Tag: Rehabilitation

The Quantified Health System help both patients and medical staff

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Should I exercise? Is a bike ride overdoing it? These are some of the questions commonly asked by patients with heart problems, tumors or orthopedic problems. In the future, the “Quantified Health System” from the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS might be able to help individuals with questions like these: The system uses Read more about The Quantified Health System help both patients and medical staff[…]

Why trust should play a crucial part in the development of intelligent machines for medical therapies

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In future decades the need for effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase significantly, because patients’ rate of survival after diseases with severe functional deficits, such as a stroke, will increase. Socially assistive robots (SARs) are already being used in rehabilitation for this reason. In the journal Science Robotics, a research team led by neuroscientist Read more about Why trust should play a crucial part in the development of intelligent machines for medical therapies[…]