A mountable ‘smart’ toilet system has been developed to personalize health monitoring. The system uses excretion data, including urinalysis, urodynamics, stool form and defecation timing, stored in a cloud server. This smart toilet system has the potential to provide useful information to characterize symptoms of patients with bowel dysfunction or defecatory disorders.
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Wang, X.J., Camilleri, M. A smart toilet for personalized health monitoring. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 17, 453–454 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-020-0320-x
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