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The telephone is typically used for conversations, some important and others not. Yet, an Intel team is pioneering new ways to use the phone as a health monitoring tool- not just a communication device. In this fascinating TED presentation, Eric Dishman anticipates that an automated system will call elderly individuals to monitor their health. The system calls and logs data such as call pickup times, responses to cognitive tests, and other behaviorial cues.  The system then builds an individual's baseline health profile using this information. If, in the future, an individual's responses deviate from their baseline then it could be a warning sign of trouble.

The ubiquity and familiarity of the phone means there is no learning curve or additional cost to the individual being monitored. With the aging boomer population there's certainly a market for an automated service which calls and checks in on your parents and sends real-time health alerts to your smartphone.

 

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Great points- minimizing M5's eco impact, eliminating our manual labor and improving cash collections for us certainly helps me sleep better.  However, I get excited thinking about the downstream benefits to our clients and the environment. Each client processes a dozen less pieces of mail through the mailroom, saves a few file folders and a cubic foot of office file storage.  That's about 20K+ pieces of mail, 5K+ folders and 1,700 sq ft of storage not consumed (apologies to Iron Mountain).  A small change upstream ripples pretty far.
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