We have been developing a personalized healthcare system for people to gather their own health data from different sensors, such as smart watch, blood pressure sensor, heart rate sensor and ECG sensor. Users can visualize them, relay to their physicians or fitness trainers for them to perform basic analysis of their health conditions and to give advices on medical or training programs. A prototype has been completed and tested.
We are currently collaborating with the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Prince of Wales Hospital to develop a wearable and ultraportable ECG sensor prototype such that patients can monitor the ECG signal of their own continuously, which can be used for early heart diseases screening. We have tested the performance of the ultraportable ECG sensors by comparing the acquired data to that from commercial ECG machine. These ultraportable ECG sensors showed promising results and their performances are approved by two cardiac experts. We are now working with Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH) and collecting ECG data from inpatients (with heart failure, hypertension, coronary artery disease, or myocardial infarction) in PWH. Other projects related to Healthcare includes:
(i) The Application of Heart Rate Variability for Evaluation of Potentially High Risk subjects for Stroke, Cardiovascular Disease and Psychosocial Stress (2018-2021)
(KS Woo, Y Leung, KS Leung, Alex PW Lee, Stephen HS Wong)
(ii) The Impact of Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Accelerated Atherosclerosis in Hong Kong: A Model for Comparative Vascular Epidemiology and Atherosclerosis Prevention in Modernizing China (2018-2021)
(KS Woo, XQ Lao, Albert M Li, Alex PW Lee, Alexis KH Lau, Y Leung, KS Leung, David S Celermajer)
(iii) 港渝兩地空氣懸浮粒子污染對加速動脈粥樣硬化的影響研究 (2019-2021)
(陳國柱, 淩智瑜, 陳偉傑, 殷躍輝, 胡錦生, 續平, 杜華安, 徐燕萍, 秦芳)
(iv) The Impact of Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Accelerated Atherosclerosis in Hong Kong: An Interventional Substudy for Atherosclerosis Prevention in Modernizing China (2019-2021)
(KS Woo, Alex PW Lee, Timothy CY Kwok, Albert M Li , Alexis KH Lau, Y Leung, KS Leung)
(v) Renal Nerve Denervation Project for Hypertension (2015-2020) (KS Woo and YH Yin)