by Alfred Poor | February 5, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the great promises of wearable Health Tech devices and the “quantified person” is that we will be able to collect massive amounts of data about individuals and communities that will allow us to extract correlations that will help healthcare...
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by Alfred Poor | February 4, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
15 million children and adults in the United States alone have life-threatening food allergies, often involving common food items and ingredients from peanuts to milk protein. There is no outward indication that these people are susceptible to a potentially deadly...
by Alfred Poor | February 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
According to some experts in the field, the wearable market ultimately will merge with the clothing industry. Our clothes will be “smart” and connected, and will have sensors built in so that we don’t need to bother with separate devices. Is this...
by Alfred Poor | February 2, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Startups are lean, nimble, and innovative. Large established organizations tend to be slow to change and the process of making a decision can take a painfully long time to work its way through all the required channels. As a result, it is newsworthy that the American...
by Alfred Poor | February 1, 2016 | General News, Medical
Implanted digital devices have to be the ultimate in “wearables;” they effectively become part of your body. Some digital implants are almost commonplace, such as the cochlear implants that can help the deaf hear again. One field in this area that has seen...
