by Alfred Poor | February 9, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Digital electronic Health Tech devices require a source of power in order to collect data and communicate it to other devices so that it can be put to practical use. When these devices are worn outside the body, it can be a relatively simple matter to change batteries...
by Alfred Poor | February 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
“We’ll have to wait for the lab results to come back.” Chances are good that if you’ve had any contact with the healthcare system beyond simple wellness checkups, you’ve heard this line before. Perhaps even more than you care to remember....
by Alfred Poor | February 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast
Here’s the fourth and final installment of Alfred Poor’s Health Tech highlights from CES 2017. In this segment, he covers a pair of vision topics: an inexpensive device for a smartphone that gives an eye exam, and glasses with lenses that change shape so...
by Alfred Poor | February 7, 2017 | General News, Medical
More than half up all people in the U.S. live with at least one chronic health condition. And one of the biggest problems is lack of adherence to medication treatments. According to some sources, the cost of failing to take prescriptions as directed results in nearly...
by Alfred Poor | February 6, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The eyes may be the windows on the soul, as the old saying goes, but it turns out that the voice may be an effective window on your physical body. Your spoken words may provide valuable data that can be used as a non-contact way to diagnose disease, even remotely over...
