by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2017 | General News, Health
Wearables can play a signficant role in the care of seniors, whether they are aging in place or living in a managed care facility. Our country pays a high price for this care, and technology can help make this support more effective while lowering overall costs....
by Alfred Poor | February 13, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
70 years ago, a discovery was made at Bell Labs in New Jersey that changed the course of human civilization. Three researchers — Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain — created a switch with no moving parts. By applying a current to one lead, they could control...
by Bruce Brown | February 10, 2017 | General News, Medical
Electronic medical records (EMRs) sound like a sure win. Standardized record keeping, central source data storage, and universal access to a single patient’s records by approved care professionals would seem to be great, at least in theory. Proposed benefits...
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by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Digital wearable Health Tech devices require power, and this usually takes the form of electricity. Some devices can harvest the energy that they need from their surroundings, using heat, motion, light, or even radio frequency (RF) waves, but most devices use some...
by Bruce Brown | February 9, 2017 | General News, Health
Workplace stress takes a toll on employees. In July 2016, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health studied job stress in collaboration with National Public Radio and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The study found that while many people think work is good for...
by Alfred Poor | February 9, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Digital electronic Health Tech devices require a source of power in order to collect data and communicate it to other devices so that it can be put to practical use. When these devices are worn outside the body, it can be a relatively simple matter to change batteries...
