by Jim Ware | October 30, 2017 | General News, Medical
How would you like to manage your medical records or find the nearest hospital from the Apple Watch on your wrist? Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has an app for that and more. The Cedars-Sinai app also allows patients to communicate with doctors, check...
by Jim Ware | October 23, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Cool new printable thermoelectric generators transform body heat into electricity. Printed on paper or cloth, these generators can power wearable devices such as sensors. Thermoelectric generators are nothing new. Until now, though, they were made of inflexible...
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by Jim Ware | October 20, 2017 | General News, Medical
Hate going to the doctor for blood work? How about a DIY blood-testing device? Tasso, the maker of the device, is one of 10 startups included in Cedars-Sinai’s third health-tech accelerator class. The companies competed with hundreds of startups worldwide to be...
by Jim Ware | October 18, 2017 | General News, Medical
Substance abuse treatment is now as close as your mobile device. Previously, “treatment as usual” (TAU) consisted of face-to-face counseling. A sub-group of patients in the study, those who weren’t abstinent at the start, showed an almost five-fold...
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by Jim Ware | October 16, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Researchers have made rapid advances in computer miniaturization, which makes it possible to develop smaller robot brains. Unfortunately, existing actuators remain bulky which limits the possibilities for smaller robots or intelligent prosthetic limbs. Existing...
