by Alfred Poor | July 6, 2015 | Health, Medical
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in three seniors fall each year resulting in more than $34 billion in healthcare costs. Nearly half of these falls occur away from the home. For this reason, many companies offer personal...
by Alfred Poor | July 1, 2015 | Medical
Can Big Data really impact healthcare costs and improve the lives of patients? At a roundtable event held by the IBM Curam Research Institute in Boston, MA last week, Rory O’Connor made a presentation about IBM Care Management, which is the first business...
by Alfred Poor | May 1, 2015 | Health, Medical
No man is an island, and if designed properly, few wearable Health Tech devices should live in isolation, either. Part of the benefit of these new devices comes from being able to aggregate data from many different sources for each individual, and then apply Big Data...
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2015 | Health, Medical
The global management consulting firm Accenture recently conducted a survey of more than 10,000 seniors across 10 countries including the United States to find out what they thought about using technology to help them manage their health. And the results were...
by Alfred Poor | March 4, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Health
We’ve written about exoskeleton robotics as means of providing assistance to the injured and the infirm, but strapping on a metal framework may be more than some patients want or need. A group at the University of Bristol’s Department of Engineering and...
