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by Bruce Brown | October 2, 2018 | General News, Health
First, they counted steps. Then fitness trackers gained additional types of exercise monitoring and record-keeping, followed by biometrics. Today wrist-borne activity wearables are stepping up to address the needs of enterprises that seek packaged solutions to...
by Bruce Brown | October 1, 2018 | General News, Medical
The opioid epidemic and telemedicine feature frequently in medical and health press, the first for its challenging, damaging, hard to fight nature and the second as a mode for patient monitoring, consults, and treatment. According to the CDC, 63,632 Americans died of...
by Bruce Brown | September 28, 2018 | General News, Medical
Nanotechnology refers to tech with dimensions less than 100 nanometers (1/10,000,000th of a meter). Nanotechnology is often used to manipulate atoms and molecules. In medical applications, the very tiny tech is often designed to react with diseased cells for...
by Alfred Poor | September 28, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the challenges for wearable devices is getting power to them. You can include a battery, but this will need to be recharged or replaced when it runs down. Researchers have explored harvesting energy from sources including body heat, motion, and ambient radio...
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by Alfred Poor | September 27, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Ultrasound is one of the most valuable imaging technologies available in healthcare. It does not need special rooms; a typical device can roll around on an equipment cart. It’s noninvasive, yet lets us peer deep inside living tissue. It relies on sound waves...
by Bruce Brown | September 26, 2018 | General News, Medical
Medical researchers have developed a range of diagnostic tools and patient compliance monitors from non-invasive wearable biomarker sensors. In particular, we’ve seen several wearables based on sensors to track biomarkers in human sweat. Stanford University...
