Epilepsy is a very difficult to cure neurological diseases. Patients need long-term treatment, often taking drugs. A few people even need lifelong medication. Once the drug is unable to control seizures, patients must pay for operation treatment which is expensive. How to use technology to help patients with epilepsy? A San Francisco company Artefact tries to solve it with wearable devices. They designed the Dialog smart bracelet looks like a patch, can be connected with mobile phone. Patients can track, manage and seizure prediction time.

Dialog Smart Bracelet

Dialog Smart Bracelet

Dialog smart bracelet/patch, connects mobile phone application through Bluetooth. It can remind the patient to take medicine in time, warned within the illness period, can also remind family, friends or the nursing personnel. Once the patients with sudden onset of illness, the application can also tell people how to deal with it. Interactive design of Dialog is also very good, it based on the idea of natural interaction. When epilepsy happened, holding it will send alarm. Before epileptic, there will be a harbinger, then they can double-click the equipment and record it. In this way, patients can have a ready, can also record time from harbinger to break out.

Dialog Smart Bracelet Construction

"We design Dialog smart bracelet is to prove that, when adopting a user centered idea, put design thinking and innovation into the complicated medical problems, you can make a more personalized experience. Chronic patients now is difficult to obtain such help, "Jordan said.