by Bruce Brown | December 25, 2018 | Health
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...
by Bruce Brown | December 24, 2018 | Medical
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...
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by Bruce Brown | December 21, 2018 | Fitness, Health
The latest figures on overweight and obese adults prove once again that dogs and their owners are often alike. Overall, 70.2% of adult men and women in the U.S. were overweight or obese in 2013-2014 according to the CDC and the National Institute of Diabetes and...
by Bruce Brown | December 20, 2018 | Medical
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...
by Bruce Brown | December 19, 2018 | Medical
Heart disease and stroke rank among the top five causes of death in the United States, according to the latest figures from the CDC. Heart disease is in the unenviable first position on the list and stroke is number five. We have written about a variety of wearable...
