by Bruce Brown | February 5, 2021 | Health
Dementia is lonely. According to the CDC, approximately 5 million people lived with a form of dementia in 2014, a number that is predicted to reach nearly 14 million by 2060. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but there are several other...
by Bruce Brown | February 3, 2021 | Health
Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) introduced an astounding array of health tech innovations at CES 2021. ITRI’s iSmartWear combines washable conductive fabric with non-contact nanosecond pulse near-field sensing (NPNS) technology to...
by Bruce Brown | February 2, 2021 | Enabling Tech
We don’t typically write about security products on Health Tech Insider. EyeVerify’s Eyeprint ID was an early exception in 2015 based on its potential application to protect personal health data user on a user’s smartphone. Beseye’s...
by Bruce Brown | February 1, 2021 | Health
In the past, we’ve expressed our enthusiasm about mobile and wearable technology to monitor cardiac conditions. We wrote about research at the University of British Columbia with low-cost ultrasound transducers and potential medical applications in diagnosing...
by Bruce Brown | January 29, 2021 | Health
We have written a bit about teeth and dental care, but we don’t cover tele-dental applications often. The only teledentistry application we covered in the past was MouthWatch’s Teledent software platform. Teledent employs an intraoral camera to capture...