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by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2016 | General News, Health
Eyeglasses, the original Health Tech wearable, may soon take on additional roles. Today those of us who wear glasses do so to correct impaired vision and to protect our eyes. VSP Vision Care has designed eyeglass frames with embedded sensors that have immediate...
by Alfred Poor | September 20, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
The enticing appeal of “the quantified self” centers on the idea that if we knew enough about enough factors for enough individuals, we could discover all sorts of useful insights into how we can help people stay healthy. Pool all that information into one...
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by Bruce Brown | September 19, 2016 | General News, Medical
The initial divide between consumer wearables and clinical medicine may be shrinking. A group of medical and technology entities in the United Kingdom launched a model that integrates wearable Health Tech with medical data and clinical care. The focus on epilepsy was...
by Alfred Poor | September 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
What if displays weren’t just another pretty face, something colorful and interesting to look at? What if they could also detect information from their surroundings? What if they had sensors built into them? The fact is that this is not a new concept; as early...
by Alfred Poor | September 18, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
The camel’s nose is under the tent. Maybe even the whole head at this point. That’s the take-away from a new survey by Ketchum about mobile technology for health and medical applications. For the company’s new mHealth Monitor report, researchers...
by Bruce Brown | September 16, 2016 | General News, Health
Glaucoma is a disease that results in bbnormally high fluid pressure inside the eye that can damage optic nerves. The disease affects more than 60 million people worldwide, according to U.K. firm Cambridge Consultants. The most common form of the disease is...
