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Hexoskin's On A Mission To Change Personal Health Management - Forbes
It isn’t so much the technology but the health data itself that drives Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, CEO and co-founder of Hexoskin, a biometric clothing company. “If we wanted a data source in people’s real life,” he said, “then we had to figure out another way to produce this data.”
Fournier said, “We spend such a huge chunk our economy to cure people. If you want to keep them healthy you have to do preventive health. If want to do that, we have to educate and put sensors on a large group of people. The best way to do that is to have biometric clothing.”
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Forbes: Hexoskin - a second skin for the quantified athlete and maybe even you!
"The advances of digital health have resulted in advances in medicine and the personal quest for health and wellness. [...] Since 2006, a group in Montreal has been developing and refining a wearable body metrics system they call Hexoskin, testing it on themselves as they run, cycle, ski or work out daily. [...] It is Hexoskin's ability to measure actual physiological responses in context, in a completely unobtrusive and non-invasive manner, that is grabbing the attention of scientists at several prestigious American and Canadian universities for their research in occupational and environmental medicine." View full article →
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