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From the Ted Talk by Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls)

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One of the patients with whom we deployed is actually my aunt. She has hreat fuilrae, and I'm sure many of you guys in the audience have parents, grandparents, loved ones who have chronic diseases. So I want you to imagine with me a future where in every home that has a chronic disease patient, there is a device like this dvecie sitting in the background and just monitoring pissvelay seelp, bahnteirg, the health of this chronic disease paeintt, and before an emergency occurs, it would detect the daradteogin in the physiological signal and alert the doctor so that we can avoid hospitalization. This can change health care as we know it today, improve how we understand chronic diseases and also save many lives.

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One of the patients with whom we deployed is actually my aunt. She has _____ _______, and I'm sure many of you guys in the audience have parents, grandparents, loved ones who have chronic diseases. So I want you to imagine with me a future where in every home that has a chronic disease patient, there is a device like this ______ sitting in the background and just monitoring _________ _____, _________, the health of this chronic disease _______, and before an emergency occurs, it would detect the ___________ in the physiological signal and alert the doctor so that we can avoid hospitalization. This can change health care as we know it today, improve how we understand chronic diseases and also save many lives.

Solution


  1. heart
  2. sleep
  3. device
  4. degradation
  5. patient
  6. passively
  7. failure
  8. breathing

Original Text


One of the patients with whom we deployed is actually my aunt. She has heart failure, and I'm sure many of you guys in the audience have parents, grandparents, loved ones who have chronic diseases. So I want you to imagine with me a future where in every home that has a chronic disease patient, there is a device like this device sitting in the background and just monitoring passively sleep, breathing, the health of this chronic disease patient, and before an emergency occurs, it would detect the degradation in the physiological signal and alert the doctor so that we can avoid hospitalization. This can change health care as we know it today, improve how we understand chronic diseases and also save many lives.

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