by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2018 | General News, Medical
Text messaging, or texting, started with a “Merry Christmas” message sent to employees in 1992 by a Vodafone engineer, according to Mashable. After initial explosive growth, texting began to decline in 2009 and hit its nadir in 2012, BigFish PR wrote in...
by Bruce Brown | February 19, 2018 | General News, Medical
Patient follow-up systems after surgical discharge have an important positive impact on outcomes, but they can also add a heavy layer of administrative complexity and expense, according to The National Academy of Sciences. While attending Harvard Medical School and...
by Bruce Brown | January 19, 2018 | General News, Health
Smart glasses such as the much-maligned Google Glass suffered a false start in the consumer market that tarnished the concept temporarily. When developers who assumed the highest and best use of augmented or enhanced reality (AR or ER) was to give people a way to...
by Alfred Poor | February 28, 2017 | General News, Medical
In the U.S. alone, we spend up to $300 billion extra every year in unnecessary healthcare costs, simply because people do not take their medications as prescribed. When you consider that more than half of the people in the country live with at least one chronic...
by Alfred Poor | February 24, 2017 | General News, Health
Fitness devices were the low-hanging fruit of the wearable industry, and helped launch the market by appealing to early adopters with disposable income. As we’ve been predicting, the wearable market is shifting inexorably towards the health market. And now...
