by Bruce Brown | June 19, 2020 | Health, Medical
The unforeseen COVID-19 pandemic continues to shake the world, setting conditions for unexpected change. We have no absolute sense of when the pandemic will fade, disappear, or continue in a series of waves, but we see and hear about the tragedy and harm it causes....
by Bruce Brown | May 21, 2020 | Health
It’s fair to state that COVID-19 caught the world’s healthcare systems unprepared to react quickly enough to the highly contagious virus. In the past few months, Health Tech Insider’s wearable and health tech coverage has covered several new health...
by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2020 | Enabling Tech
COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm our healthcare systems. In many cases, healthcare personnel cannot keep up with the influx of patients. Help may be on the way, however. A company has launched a new app that relies on telehealth to screen patients based on their...
by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2020 | Medical
Today’s headlines announce the latest confirmed global numbers of cases and deaths of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. We won’t know the outcome of nCoV for months, possibly years. However, we do know that overdose deaths from opioids in the U.S. increased...
by Bruce Brown | October 30, 2019 | Medical
The Oxford Dictionary defines a paradigm shift as “a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions.” Such a shift is exactly what’s happening with UnitedHealth Group’s UnitedHealthcare app. The new UHC app includes access to...