by Alfred Poor | June 19, 2015 | Health
According to some sources, as many as 100 million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic pain. This can be treated in a variety of ways, including medication, but these treatments are not always effective. NeuroMetrix is a spin-off from the Harvard-MIT Division of...
by Alfred Poor | June 2, 2015 | Medical
toSense is a startup based in San Diego, California, and the company has quietly created a device that can monitor a patient’s heart at home. The CoVa Monitoring device is worn like a necklace, and communicates wirelessly either to a base unit or an Android...
by Alfred Poor | May 15, 2015 | Medical
Taken in the broadest scope, not all wearable Health Tech devices are electronic. Doctors at the University of Michigan have developed a way to print 3D splints that can help infants with a rare condition survive. The patients are born with a restricted airway that...
by Alfred Poor | April 24, 2015 | Medical
Wearable Health Tech devices clearly hold the potential to lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes through early detection and more effective monitoring of treatment. However, there’s another area that could also yield enormous financial benefits from this...
by Alfred Poor | April 22, 2015 | Health, Medical
Hmmm, that spot on your skin doesn’t look good. Is it just a mole, or is it something that you should be concerned about? Maybe you should see a doctor. Or maybe you’re just being overly cautious. What do you do? One of the promises of wearable Health Tech...