by Alfred Poor | December 9, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
Electronics by their very nature tend to be fragile devices; if a contact is broken, electricity can not get where it needs to go, and the device may function incorrectly or perhaps not even function at all. In contrast, the human body has evolved to accept all sorts...
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by Alfred Poor | December 8, 2015 | General News, Health
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of elderly in our population will experience “considerable growth” as Baby Boomers born in the 1940s and 1950s get older. They will also live longer than the generations that came before. The number of people...
by Alfred Poor | December 7, 2015 | General News, Medical
Arrhythmia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose, because it can often be intermittent. As a result, patients have to wear a monitor that tracks their heartbeats for an extended period of time. And they also must log notable events when they occur, such as...
by Alfred Poor | December 4, 2015 | General News, Medical
A typical postage stamp is about 1.0 inch by 0.9 inches. The Swiss company Debiotech has created a miniature pump that is less than one third that size, and about as thick. This device is designed to be implanted under the skin to deliver drugs — such as insulin...
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by Alfred Poor | December 3, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
As we’ve written about here many times before, wearable Health Tech devices pose a new set of challenges when it comes to user interface controls. The small (or even invisible) devices are not well suited for the traditional computer controls of keyboard, touch...
