Ambient, preventive health for every home
Healthcare is changing, deeply and for good. Several years after the big flop of the “quantified self”, personal health data is back under the spotlight, sometimes in a controversial way, often in a more serious and reliable way. Personal health devices are back as well — thank you apple watch for opening the field, thank you Google for giving fitbit a new life.

We are at the dawn of a new era where sensors, data and software will monitor our health continuously, detect slight changes in our patterns early, that are signs of the onset of diseases. Doctors can then treat them before they have damaging effects on our bodies and our lives, or even before they occur. We will live longer, healthier lived, in our homes, at a much lower health care cost, thanks to predictive, ambient heath care.

To make this happen, it is essential that vital signs are gathered on a regular basis. Wearable devices do the job well, but not everyone wants to or can wear them all day. And not everyone can afford an apple watch. Also, none of these wearables can function 24/7 without being taken off to be recharged.

Today, only a happy few of the most dedicated, the luckiest or the wealthiest of us have access to this. A small but active niche population of quantified self geeks will wear several fitbits and spire devices to monitor their vital signs continuously and try to analyze the data to detect changes, good or bad, in their health. Wealthy or very tech savvy elderly people can instrument their apartments or homes at a high price point and complexity to detect and prevent domestic issues like falls. But the vast majority of the population does not have medical sensors available.

Health in the home should not be like that…

There is a bootstrapping issue with the predictive and preventive algorithms too, where predictive medicine can make progress only if enough data is available, i.e. if enough patients use it. The more users, the more data, the more powerful algorithms and predictions will be.

We need more affordable, more seamless and more scalable devices to bootstrap this revolution. We need devices that do not need to be worn, and require no effort from their users. We need ambient, contactless health monitoring.

We, at Norbert Health, have a mission to build just that. We will radically accelerate this preventive healthcare revolution by bringing it to the masses, packaged in a very seamless, affordable and easy device.

Health in the home could be more like this!

We are building the first ambient medical pod for the home, that will monitor the health of your loved ones without requiring any effort from anyone. Just plug it in, turn it on and it will do the job.

Our first mission is to help our rapidly growing elderly population age in their homes.

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['Alexandre Winter']
['AI', 'Consumer Electronics', 'Healthcare', 'Computer Vision', 'Technology']