by Amantha May | November 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Flexible skin sensors have advantages over hard-cased wearables in terms of the potential for precision readings. But pliability has a disadvantage when it comes to the durability of bendable sensor hardware components. That vulnerability means that a flexible sensor...
by Amantha May | November 11, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Health
Seniors in nursing homes who experience social isolation have an increased risk for severe health conditions. Older adults also need social interaction and other stimulating activities to maintain their cognitive health. Yet COVID-19 has made it more difficult —...
by Bruce Brown | November 6, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Who knew sweat could be such a big deal? Looking back through our coverage here on Health Tech Insider, in 2020 alone we wrote about five technologies that monitor sweat to measure drug levels at UCLA and the Stanford School of Medicine, pH at National Univerity of...
by Bruce Brown | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Researchers continue to push skin sensor technology development. We’ve written about skin sensor technology from many angles including drawing sensors on the skin with ink, 3D sensor printing directly on the skin, energy-harvesting skin patches, haptic...
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by Amantha May | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
Delivering drugs to a specific internal organ often affects other organs along the way, causing side-effects and reducing the amount of medication that reaches the target area. To address this issue, researchers at Purdue University have designed a tiny robot that...
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by Bruce Brown | November 2, 2020 | Enabling Tech
We’ve written about numerous advances in medical diagnostics using artificial intelligence. In one of the most exciting AI-related achievements to date, IBM and Pfizer recently announced the results of a jointly-developed AI model that predicts Alzheimer’s...
