3D Printed Superhero Prosthetics Save the Day [video]

3D Printed Superhero Prosthetics Save the Day [video]

3D printing technologies already deliver key benefits to medicine across diverse applications. We’ve written about 3D printed cartilage implants, sensors and electronics that are 3D-printed directly on the skin, and 3D printed hemispherical bionic eyes. Various...
Telehealth Increases Access, Reduces Wait Time and Cost

Telehealth Increases Access, Reduces Wait Time and Cost

Telemedicine in its various forms was one of our most frequent topics on Health Tech Insider during 2018. News about related topics seem to pop up weekly: remote patient and physician access via telephone, text, video conferencing, store-and-forward, and cloud data...
Mass General Updates findERnow Smartphone App

Mass General Updates findERnow Smartphone App

The hospital “emergency room” may no longer exist, ceding its place in modern medical care to emergency departments (ED) that handle an increasing volume of visitors. In 2015 there were 136.9 million emergency department visits, 9% of which, or 12.3...
Brain Tumor Second Opinion Consults by Telemedicine

Brain Tumor Second Opinion Consults by Telemedicine

Telemedicine may be still in its formative, pioneer stage, but new applications for the resource-efficient medical and healthcare alternative continue to spring up. We’ve written about telemedicine’s rapid growth fields as diverse as addiction recovery...