AI Identifies “Ugly Ducklings” to Detect Skin Cancer [video]

by Amantha May | March 1, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Melanoma is a type of cancer that affects pigment-producing skin cells; it kills roughly 7,000 men and women in the United States each year. Early detection and treatment of melanoma give patients the best chance of surviving the disease. Researchers from the Wyss...

Amazon Picked as Greatest Impact on Healthcare

by Bruce Brown | February 26, 2021 | Enabling Tech

We write about new and developing healthcare and medical technologies every day. Our primary focus on wearables and devices people use in their homes extends to telehealth, AI, and many forms of digital therapeutics. We frequently communicate with representatives of...

Are Those Real Muscles or Bristols Under Your Shirt?[video]

by Bruce Brown | February 24, 2021 | Enabling Tech

We often highlight wearable sensors, remote patient monitoring (RPM), artificial intelligence-driven applications in medicine, hearables, and medical grade multi-sensors. Assistive wearables also beep loudly on our interest sonar, however, usually in the form of...

Are We Ready for Mass-Produced COVID-19 Biosensor Stickers?

by Bruce Brown | February 23, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Since 2014, we have written about biometric sensors of all shapes, sizes, materials, and technologies. On August 29, 2014, Alfred Poor wrote about FDA approval for Vital Connect’s HealthPatch, a medical device that combined a disposable patch and a reusable...

Wearable Cuff Senses Gestures To Control Prosthetics [video]

by Amantha May | February 12, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a wearable biosensor device that recognizes hand gestures. Still in development, the UC team believes the device could eventually give patients control over prosthetic hands and other artificial body...

CES 2021: 3D Print New Bone Right in the Patient’s Body [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 8, 2021 | Enabling Tech

This is hair-standing technology. Can you Imagine having surgery and during the procedure, technicians scan an area of your bones that have missing or depleted bone tissue? And then — this is the part that tightened the follicles on my lower arms — during...