by Bruce Brown | April 18, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Researchers have made rapid advances in wearable Health Tech to measure biomedical elements such as blood oxygen levels, heart rate, blood glucose, and blood pressure. These developments have increased the demand for ever smaller and more convenient physical devices....
by Bruce Brown | April 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Efficient and effective in-patient drug delivery technology is a challenge. Some diseases and conditions such as malaria and tuberculosis call for pills multiple times a day, which makes compliance tougher when relying on patients to take the medication on time the...
by Alfred Poor | April 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
According to the site Statista, nearly nearly four out five people in the U.S. have at profile on at least on social network. Unfortunately, it stands to reason that more than a few of these millions of people are sick with one illness or another. In many cases,...
by Alfred Poor | April 11, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable sensors are able to provide an increasingly detailed measure of what is going on in a patient’s body from minute to minute. In addition to vital signs, all sorts of biometric measures including chemical biomarkers can be sensed and recorded. This...
by Alfred Poor | March 17, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
The problems involved in keeping a heart disease patient alive are complex and interconnected. Keeping a heart beating can require muscular, electrical, and medicinal treatments. A pacemaker by itself is not enough, nor are pharmaceuticals. Researchers at Tel Aviv...
by Alfred Poor | March 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Users need to be able to interact with wearable devices in ways that are easy, intuitive, and precise. It’s not difficult to add touchscreen functions to a small display like a smartwatch, but the small size can make it difficult for interactions to be easy or...