Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and Northwestern University are building wearable and weighing-scale-based ballistocardiogram (BCG) technology for monitoring HF patients at home.

Omer Inan has been appointed to the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective July 1.

ECE Associate Professor Omer Inan has worked with colleagues from UCSF and Northwestern to design a wearable device that adults with preexisting conditions can use to monitor their heart and lung function from the comfort of their own homes.

The future of socially distanced lung and heart health monitoring could lie in this inconspicuous yet incredibly sensitive chip.

This scale could help keep heart failure patients out of the hospital.