by Alfred Poor | April 15, 2015 | Fitness, Health
According to a recent article by Reuters, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control report that obesity costs U.S. employers more than $70 billion every year, due to absenteeism and healthcare expenses. This is money that could be better spent on higher salaries and more...
by Alfred Poor | April 14, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Sometimes it feels as though the wearable HealthTech universe is expanding at the speed of light. There’s a steady stream of new product announcements, new research projects, new applications, and new insights into the potential benefits. But it also seems that...
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by Alfred Poor | April 14, 2015 | Health, Medical
Last fall, we reported on IBM’s partnership with GenieMD to apply Watson’s cognitive computing to medical Big Data applications. Now the company has announced IBM Watson Health to expand these types of applications. In the process, IBM has acquired the...
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by Alfred Poor | April 13, 2015 | Health, Medical
With all the recent coverage of another certain smartwatch, it’s easy to think that it’s a one-brand market. The fact is that many companies also have smartwatches, with new ones being announced all the time. Still, it would not be a surprise if you missed...
by Alfred Poor | April 13, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Some wearable HealthTech devices simply record data and wirelessly transmit it to some other device for processing, analysis, and reporting. The person wearing the device has little need to interact directly with it, relying instead on the user interface of some other...
