by Amantha May | March 4, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Draw the drapes and watch TV on them. Let your carpet power your home electronics. Tell your shirt to send messages to your friend’s socks. Sure, all that sounds a bit like an off-the-wall sci-fi movie, but multifunction smart textiles aren’t just a futuristic fantasy...
by Amantha May | March 2, 2022 | Medical
A new survey by global digital healthcare company Vivalink shows a majority of clinicians trust the accuracy of mobile cardiac telemetry (MCT) over the Holter monitor. Of 100 participants, 68% said MCT provides better detection rates and more accurate diagnoses of...
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by Amantha May | February 25, 2022 | Health
The first baby monitor, known as the Zenith Radio Nurse, was invented in 1937. But baby monitors didn’t become mainstream until the 1990s, when frequency hopping technology made baby monitors much more reliable. Since then, expectant parents have poured much...
by Amantha May | February 23, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Tiny, biocompatible, self-powered nanogenerators could soon offer a wearable solution to boost healing through electrotherapy. Natural wound healing involves molecular interactions triggered by the weak electrical charge present in some types of biological...
by Amantha May | February 18, 2022 | Medical
TytoCare, a platform that provides around-the-clock virtual urgent care, recently assisted a community health center in Dallas in obtaining FCC funding to expand its telehealth program. Working with TytoCare, Los Barrios Unidos Community Clinic (LBU) applied for and...
