Cognition and Brain Health Home Monitoring

by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2017 | General News, Health

As our aging population increases, the incidence of mental health problems, memory issues, and cognitive disabilities increases as well. The World Health Organization predicts brain and cognitive health will cost $6 trillion annually by 2030. Early in 2016, we wrote...

Patient-Generated Data Growing in Importance

by Alfred Poor | March 30, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical

  “The Quantified Self” holds great promise for healthcare, as we replace once-a-year checkups with a rich data set of biometric information collected around the clock, all year long. The question is whether or not healthcare professionals perceive...

Virtual Reality Senior Experience for Physician Training [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2017 | General News, Medical

What is it like to grow old? For most of us, the only way to find out is to get old. Many of us are already there; in 2014 about one person in seven was 65 or older, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Community Services Administration for Community Living...

Smart Fabric Adapts to Cold [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 29, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News

If you’re a parent, it’s like that at some point you have said something like this to your child: “I’m cold; go put a sweater on.” It can be frustrating to get kids to dress appropriately, but it can also be inconvenient to carry multiple...

Smartphone-based Live Sperm Home Test [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 28, 2017 | General News, Health

Connected devices are powerful agents of disintermediation, and Health Tech is no exception. Smartphones are taking sophisticated tasks away from professionals and literally putting them in the hands of consumers. We recently wrote about work by a group from...

Nanowires to Help Patients See Again

by Alfred Poor | March 28, 2017 | General News, Medical

We have prosthetic arms and legs to help people who have lost limbs. We have cochlear implants to help people who have lost their hearing. Technology has come up with answers for many different types of physical impairments. Yet one area in particular remains...