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by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Wearable sensors are typically worn on the wrist, but we’ve written about sensors pinned to clothing, carried in a pocket, woven into garments, and even ingested. For example, in 2017 we wrote about Abilify MyCite, the first FDA cleared ingestible sensor. That...
by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Prosthetics enable mobility and independence but fitting the apparatus and helping recipients learn to use an artificial arm or leg can be obstacles in the way of success. Powered prosthetic legs, for example, typically require “tuning” by trained clinical...
by Bruce Brown | February 4, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Smart pills represent a new way to combine technologies in which each element in the stack plays a critical role. The essential components of digital medications include a drug, an ingestible sensor, a wearable patch that receives data from the ingestible sensor, and...
by Bruce Brown | January 28, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and big data have already disrupted conventional health tech research and development in significant ways; many of our posts on Health Tech Insider mention the technology, the algorithms, and the bits and bytes....
by Bruce Brown | January 25, 2019 | Enabling Tech
We’ve written before about smart homes for seniors and ways in which wearable health tech and smart homes can work in conjunction. We’ve also covered robots of various types, from telepresence enablers to smart exoskeletons and prosthetics that aid human...
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by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Low-cost, low-power Bluetooth wireless technology enables many wearable healthtech devices. In ideal conditions, Low-Energy Bluetooth transmits further than an American football field (>100 meters), but for most health tech applications, a 10 to 20-foot range is more...
