by Bruce Brown | November 21, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
It’s neither our practice nor our inclination to write about health tech developers who abandon projects or new tech attempts that fail. Because Google’s health tech division Verily and Novartis’ Alcon eye-care division are the primary participants...
by Bruce Brown | November 16, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable health tech devices spur the search for new types of power sources. We’ve written about flexible batteries that can be cut into shapes from Nanyang Technological University, stretchable batteries embedded in garments developed at Binghamton University,...
by Bruce Brown | November 15, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The health tech wearables that we write about typically combine one or more integrated biosensors with battery-powered wireless transmitters to send biometric data elsewhere to be stored and analyzed, usually to a smartphone. Such devices come in a myriad of form...
by Bruce Brown | November 8, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Artificial intelligence is coming into its own in medical applications at an increasingly rapid pace. We’ve seen reports of impressive results from deep-learning machine language diagnostic studies from research groups worldwide. Most recently we wrote about a...
by Bruce Brown | October 30, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Despite old saws about “ivory towers of academia,” technology flourishes best with developers who are fully aware of real-world challenges and urgent societal problems. The rapid and significant developments in mobile communications during the past 15...
by Bruce Brown | October 26, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Implanted biosensors have several advantages over wearables or carryable devices, but implantables also raise questions about power sources. Adherence and data reliability is better than with traditional wearables; no one has to remember to carry or wear an implant....
