This week’s Smart Health roundup features a smart medication tracker and temperature monitor, a teaser site for a new smartwatch launching soon and a partnership between a pharmaceutical company and a patient portal for research purposes.

Insulin Angel

Diabetes, asthma, fatal allergies – these are just some health conditions that require people to have their medication with them at all times. Just as important is keeping those meds at the right temperature. A new device called Insulin Angel launched on Indiegogo which aims to help patients, their families and caregivers better manage their conditions.

Insulin Angel is a system comprised of a medication carrier, a proximity sensor and a mobile app. The carrying case has temperature sensors to determine whether the medication is kept at the right temperature, warning of variant temperatures. It also has a proximity sensor that alerts the person if he or she is about to leave behind the medication case. As for the smartphone app, users can view real-time information about the medication, such as its current temperature.

Insulin Angel uses the relayr WunderBar, Open Source Cloud and SDKs to provide users with real-time information about the whereabouts of their medication, temperature, as well as alerting them when it’s time to take their medication. Though the name implies it is directed at people with diabetes, Insulin Angel will also work with medications for asthma as well as epi-pens.

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ASUS launches teaser site for new smartwatch

ASUS Design presents Zensation, a teaser site for its new smartwatch which may be based on the ZenWatch, the company’s earlier smartwatch. Visiting the site gives you this sense of calmness as it features photos of nature but not much information about the smartwatch except for the time of an event where ASUS is expected to reveal more about the new device.

If you’re intrigued as to what ASUS’ has up its sleeves, head on to Via Tortona in Milan from April 14-19, 2015 at 10AM to 9PM. According to reports, the device will be called VivoWatch and will have a whopping 10-day battery life, a stainless steel body, IP67 rating, heart-rate monitoring and sleep tracking. No news yet as to how much this device will cost.

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Biogen teams up with Patients Like Me for MS research

Cambridge-based biotechnology company Biogen has teamed up with Patients Like Me, a patient powered research network to better understand how fitness trackers of today can help patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that affects the flow of information in the brain as well as between the brain and the body which results in disruption of motor skill, among others.

The partnership kicked off a new study that signed up 250 MS patients with 203 of them willing to share their fitness tracking results with researchers for three weeks. The patients were given Fitbit trackers to use and though half of the group has never used any fitness tracker, 55 percent of the patients stated that the fitness tracker helped them change their health routine while 68 percent believed that the tracker could help them manage their condition.

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