Crowd-funding has helped many Health Tech devices raise development funds and build a market for new products. Some campaigns have extraordinary success. For example, consider the Hello from Sense. This sleep-tracking device ran a Kickstarter campaign three years ago with the modest goal of raising $100,000. Instead, they raised $2.4 million from nearly 20,000 backers. And … [Read more...]
Internet Trends Point to Healthcare Shifts
Mary Meeker is a venture capitalist with the firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), and is known for her intensive and extensive annual presentations on Internet Trends. In her report this year, she spent a portion of her presentation on the impact of the Internet on healthcare, both in the U.S. and worldwide. The key premise of her presentation was that … [Read more...]
Low-Cost Screening for Senior Fall Risk
In the year 2000, U.S. seniors 65 or older fell and required medical treatment 2.6 million times. The total price tag was $19 billion for direct medical costs alone. A bit more than a third of these incidents resulted in bone fractures, but these accounted for more than 60% of the costs. Clearly, if we can identify individuals who are at risk of falling, we may be able to … [Read more...]
Stanford Study Reveals Tracker Band Flaws
The task of measuring events, such as heartbeats, is relatively straightforward. When you try to infer information from a combination of measurements, however, it gets a bit trickier. It is possible that you end up missing key factors that are required in order to give an accurate result. And as we've mentioned before, we are well along in the process of transitioning from … [Read more...]
A Biometric Smartwatch You Can’t Buy [video]
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It sounds tempting: a watch that can monitor and record multiple biometric and environmental measures including electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, skin electrical activity, and motion. It runs for up to a week on a single charge. It stores enough data for a week or more, so you don't have to sync it as often. Its processor can do a lot of the number crunching on board. The … [Read more...]
