Author summary Wearables and other sensors offer great promise for monitoring patients both inside and outside of the hospital. But these technologies are often difficult to integrate into clinical workflows because they need technical support, patient compliance, and standardized implementation protocols. To address these limitations, we created a contactless sensor system, called GroundCode, that transforms a room into a continuous health sensor. This facilitates its integration into a surgical workflow for preoperative risk assessment. Our sensing system can be set up in under 10 minutes in any environment and makes highly accurate measurements of how someone walks and moves. This technology has applications for disease diagnosis, clinical risk prediction, and at-home health monitoring, and has the potential to facilitate aging-in-place and other healthcare delivery models that prioritize patient well-being and recovery outside of the hospital.
Introduction
Gait-based functional assessments are used to risk stratify individuals before surgery and to predict morbidity and mortality after surgery [1–4]. Various gait parameters – like speed and cadence – can be measured by wearables, cameras a… [42261 chars]
Source: PLOS (Public Library of Science) | Published: 2025-11-13T00:00:00Z
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