Smart Textile

Protect and Empower At-Risk population thanks to our smart t-shirt

Seniors Homecare & Aging in Place: Offer greater independence and quality of life to an aging population. Prevent accidents or anomalies, so caregivers and family members can provide assistance in a timely manner. 

Risk Prevention for Vulnerable Population: Proactively monitor at-risk users with preexisting conditions to allow caregiver intervention before health deterioration events, avoiding costly hospitalizations and healthcare expenditures.

Occupational Health: Day-to-day management of employee health and wellness by monitoring vital signs such as heart rate, breathing rhythms and physical activities intensity. For high-risk industries including construction and oil drilling, continuously monitor worker exposure to hazardous materials such as dust, gas or vapor, to inform protective measures and proactively control exposure level. 

Defense and Safety: Protect key personnel wherever they are by remotely monitoring their health status to ensure the integrity of mission-critical operations. Chronolife’s smart t-shirt meets the strictest, military-grade requirements.

Deploy Smart Textile with Chronolife’s Full-Service Solution

Whether you are a senior care provider, an employer that has a large workforce working at potentially hazardous environments, or an insurer looking to level up prevention for your members, Chronolife is your ideal partner for retrieving, analyzing and providing relevant health data collected through our smart t-shirt and third-party devices. Leveraging our robust partnership network, Chronolife is here to support you on everything from logistics, deployment and user training to data management and technical integrations.

Monitoring the elderly

Ageing in place

An Innovative Monitoring Technology for Ageing in place

Benefits of Wearable Monitoring for Elders

Wearable monitors that offer remote patient monitoring (RPM) are an effective means to help our aging adults manage their care away from existing health centers. A majority of older individuals have chronic or acute illnesses or injuries, with eight out of ten older Americans living with one or more chronic diseases. In Europe, about 37% of people aged 65+ reported having at least two chronic diseases on average across EU countries.

Findings from the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Care Coordination/Home Telehealth program show costs associated with telehealth and RPM efforts are about $1,600 per patient per annum, compared to VHA’s home-based primary care services at $13,121 per patient per year and market nursing home care rates that average $77,745 per patient per year.

The Public Health Institute notes that the U.S. healthcare system would reduce costs by $200 billion in the next 25 years if there is a major shift to remote monitoring tools in cases of congestive heart failure, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and chronic wounds or skin ulcers, which disproportionately affect older individuals.

Chronolife’s Smart Textile Monitoring Technology for Aging in Place

Smart Textile is a CE and FCC approved monitoring device worn as a comfortable, machine-washable smart t-shirt that continuously tracks a wide range of different physiological parameters in real-life, non-clinical settings, to offer greater independence and quality of life to the aging population, while allowing caregivers and family members to proactively monitor any anomalies or detect accidents, so they can provide assistance in a timely manner.

Importance of Multiparametric Monitoring for Seniors

The importance of collecting diverse, multiple, and comprehensive sets of physiological data cannot be overstated when it comes to monitoring the well-being of seniors. According to a recent research article published in Medicine, the ability to continuously monitor significant changes in vital signs could be significant when it comes to in-hospital mortality among elderly with trauma.Chronolife’s multiparametric monitoring Smart Textile solution tracks a number of key physiological signals including electrocardiogram, heart rate, respiration, temperature and thoracic impedance which provide critical information to seniors’ health status. Being able to concurrently monitor a comprehensive range of physiological parameters allows caregivers and family members to not only keep track of elders with specific health concerns for noticeable triggers but also evaluate signals under the context of their global health status which may surface anomalies previously not known, all as part of a cohesive prevention and welness program to promote a healthy and balanced lifestyle for seniors.

Prevention and Risk Reduction

Wearable Smart Textile for Population Health Prevention and Rehabilitation

Wearable Monitoring for Health Screening and Assessment

Studies have shown that 72% of large firms offering employee health benefits provide health screenings, such as biometric screenings and health risk assessment, as part of their workplace wellness program. While traditionally this is done in a hospital setting, with organizations globally adopting a hybrid workplace model, employers need a new approach to not only optimize costs but also encourage employee participation and involvement by making the screening process as easy and convenient as possible.

Stress Assessment and Risk Prevention

According to the 12th Annual Employer-Sponsored Health & Well-Being Survey, 92% of respondents expanded their support for well-being programs targeting issues such as stress management and sleep improvement, to address the pandemic’s continued impact on workers, especially in the areas of mental health. Work-related stress not only reduces productivity, but also can cause medical conditions that can put employees’ health at risk. 

Stress can increase inflammation in your body, which in turn is linked to factors that can harm your heart, such as high blood pressure and lower “good” HDL cholesterol, says  Johns Hopkins cardiologist Michael Blaha, M.D., M.P.H. According to a new study, the combined effect of stress from social interactions and paid work increases women’s likelihood of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) by 21%. While stress may impact men and women differently, findings from a few studies indicate that the link between psychosocial stress and CHD may be stronger in women than in men.

Chronolife’s Smart Textile Remote Monitoring Service

Chronolife’s multiparametric monitoring Smart Textile solution tracks a comprehensive set of all major vital signs, via a 100% machine washable connected t-shirt that wears comfortably like everyday undergarments. Instead of traveling to hospitals to conduct multiple health check-ups, employees can have their health conditions continuously screened from the comfort of their home by using the biometric monitoring t-shirt. Based on the information collected, medical professionals can detect anomalies and recommend targeted preventative programs. This also makes it convenient and efficient for evaluating employees’ fitness to work (return to work/stay at work after sick leave) based on multiparametric data collected in real life situations.

For workers in hazardous working environments such as construction and manufacturing, Smart Textile is a powerful tool for employers to remotely monitor workers’ exposure level to health-compromising materials to inform protective measures and recovery mechanisms.