ClientBot Accelerates Talk Therapist Training

by Bruce Brown | July 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Mental health treatment plans can involve medication and other physical treatment options, but talk therapy remains a nearly universal component. In the 1960s, MIT AI Laboratory’s Joseph Weizenbaum wrote the ELIZA program to talk with patients as a reflective...

FDA-Cleared Human Milk Nutrition Analyzer [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 18, 2019 | Enabling Tech

When we wrote about technology and human breast milk previously, the focus was wearable breast pumps from Willow and Chiaro. We also wrote about JustMilk’s work developing a breastfeeding drug delivery system to use in remote regions where children may not...

Sensor Networks Create Smart Skin [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 17, 2019 | Enabling Tech

In 2015 we reported forecasts that smart clothing applications would rise rapidly by 2020 but the bulk of the applications would be fitness-oriented, not associated with healthcare. In 2018 Juniper Research predicted connected clothing would top 7 million units in...

Uber Uses Blockchain App for Patient Rides [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 16, 2019 | Medical

Patients who miss appointments with their primary care physicians may shrug it off as not that big a deal. According to a much-quoted 2017 report by SCI Solutions, however, the estimated aggregate annual cost of those blown appointments adds up to $150 billion. SCI...

Wearable Clip-on Restores Central Vision [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 15, 2019 | Medical

Imagine you had to choose between keeping your peripheral or central vision. If you could retain only one of the two for the rest of your life, what would you choose? People with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) don’t have that choice. As their retina...

Wearable Vibrator Combats Bone Loss

by Bruce Brown | July 12, 2019 | Health

According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, the most commonly cited global source on the disease, 1 in 4 women and more than 1 in 8 men over 50 years of age in North America have osteoporosis. Also, 1 in 4 women and men in the same age group have evidence...