by Alfred Poor | October 31, 2014 | Medical
Gentac is a company that makes disposable wireless sensor patches. These battery-less devices rely on the same near-field communications (NFC) technology found in many smartphones to read the sensor’s data from a distance. In a hospital setting, this means that...
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by Alfred Poor | October 30, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Do you dream of building your own personal health tech device? Maybe a smartwatch that talks to your phone, or maybe a pendant that reminds you when to take your meds, or maybe a belt buckle that tells you when you’ve eaten enough? If you need a...
by Alfred Poor | October 30, 2014 | Fitness, Health
As I have been predicting here for a while, consumer wearable Health Tech products are going to have to keep adding features in order to stay competitive and to grow their market. This is a familiar trajectory for many consumer product categories. For example, look at...
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by Alfred Poor | October 29, 2014 | Medical
Many college students see their lives as “on hold” until they can graduate and start working on projects that matter. Five undergraduates at UCLA decided that they don’t want to wait, so they created the new Bruin Medical Entrepreneurs group. This is...
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by Alfred Poor | October 29, 2014 | Health, Medical
Who says that there’s nothing new under the sun? The National Institute of Health (NIH) has announced a new discipline in health research: Mobile Health, or mHealth for short. In a new video, the NIH points out the benefits and challenges of the new advances in...
