Plushcare Offers Telehealth Service in All 50 States

Plushcare Offers Telehealth Service in All 50 States

We’ve written about advances in telehealth and telemedicine implementations many times in the past few years. We most recently wrote about significant increases in physician telehealth adoption reported in American Well’s Telehealth Index 2019 Physician...
Smart Shirt Monitors COPD Patient Breathing

Smart Shirt Monitors COPD Patient Breathing

We’ve written about the Hexoskin health sensing smart shirt several times, including the device’s use with young athletes and astronauts. Now Hexoskin has an additional application: monitoring patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)....
A Box of Tech Helps Parents Detect Autism

A Box of Tech Helps Parents Detect Autism

The Centers for Disease Control report that studies in Asia, Europe, and North America identify from 1% to 2% of the population with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD is approximately four times as common with boys than with girls but occurs in all racial, ethnic,...
Depth Sensors Monitor Stroke Rehab Progress

Depth Sensors Monitor Stroke Rehab Progress

Each year, more than 795,000 people in the U.S. suffer a stroke, about 75% of which are first strokes. Stroke is also the leading cause of serious disability and results in reduced mobility more than 50% of the time for survivors who are 65 and older, according to the...
AI Predicts Kidney Disease in Cats

AI Predicts Kidney Disease in Cats

We don’t typical cover health tech for pets, but the potential cross-over for humans sometimes makes a story relevant for our audience. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the leading cause of death for cats over five years of age, according to a 2015 study...