By: Erin Biba
May 22, 2019
People with heart disease are notoriously bad at monitoring their health on their own. In fact, 45 percent of all patients who are released from the hospital with congestive heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 90 days.
This is not only a problem for heart patients’ quality of life but also because Medicare and Medicaid penalize hospitals when patients are readmitted too quickly after being discharged. To tackle the problem, researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology have found a way to integrate sensors into an object that everyone interacts with several times a day and which can passively monitor heart health while requiring they do nothing more then sit down.
The next frontier in heart health is: a toilet seat.