"The Quantified Self" holds great promise for healthcare, as we replace once-a-year checkups with a rich data set of biometric information collected around the clock, all year long. The question is whether or not healthcare professionals perceive the value of this new information, and whether it will be useful in lowering healthcare costs and improving outcomes. A … [Read more...]
Project Monitors Children’s Vitals without Wires
Wireless Health Tech devices are starting to make significant inroads into standard medical practice. The ability of these systems to collect continuous data from patients provides more detailed and accurate information about their condition, relieves hospital staff of some routine tasks, and using sophisticated algorithms, can perform predictive analysis and generate … [Read more...]
Virtual Reality Aids Cancer Patients [video]
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Modern medicine works miracles. Diseases that used to kill thousands and thousands of people every year have all but disappeared from the planet. Other diseases that used to be a certain death sentence now can be cured, or at least their progress can be slowed. Cancer is one good example of the amazing progress that we've made just in a single lifetime. Yet cancer treatment for … [Read more...]
Smart Vest Maps Cardiac Activity [video]
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A standard ECG produces a series of line graphs that healthcare professionals can "read" to diagnose irregular heart rhythms. In some cases, however, this data is not detailed enough to document the actual sequence of events involved in an abnormal heartbeat, especially when the problem is intermittent. This detail is important when planning treatments such as ablation … [Read more...]
Health Tech Podcast: CES 2017 Part 4
Here's the fourth and final installment of Alfred Poor's Health Tech highlights from CES 2017. In this segment, he covers a pair of vision topics: an inexpensive device for a smartphone that gives an eye exam, and glasses with lenses that change shape so you may never need to replace them. And he also covers interesting research that may indicate that infrared light can help … [Read more...]
