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by Bruce Brown | March 27, 2018 | General News, Medical
Doctors don’t become doctors so they can fill out forms. Hundreds of thousands of physicians, nurses, and other clinical staff log massive amounts of time with documentation at the cost of patient time. The actual time spent on paper instead of with patients...
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by Bruce Brown | March 26, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
New accessibility technologies for blind and visually impaired people usually entail head-mounted video components with some means of translating for or alerting users. Examples include eSight’s electronic glasses for the legally blind and the Horus headset....
by Bruce Brown | March 23, 2018 | General News, Health
On average, 23% of heart failure patients are readmitted to a hospital every year, according to a study published in 2016 in Progressive Cardiovascular Disease. About 5.7 million American adults live with heart failure (HF), a sizable number projected to increase to 8...
by Bruce Brown | March 22, 2018 | General News, Medical
We hear often about the distressingly high incidence of Type 2 diabetes in the U.S. In a 2017 report, the CDC estimated 9.4% of the population or about 30.3 million Americans have diabetes. The World Health Organization’s 2016 Global Report on Diabetes estimated...
by Bruce Brown | March 21, 2018 | General News, Health
Americans continue to rack up unfortunately high scores on common health problems. According to the CDC, approximately 75 million adults in the U.S have hypertension (high blood pressure). Another 75 million have prehypertension: blood pressure scores that are above...
