by Alfred Poor | October 3, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
At a recent CES show in Las Vegas, I met someone who was developing a smart insole to measure the pressure forces at multiple locations on the subject’s foot. As we discussed the design challenges, she said “The biggest problem is figuring out where to put...
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 Alfred Poor | October 2, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Ever since the blockbuster movie “Fantastic Voyage,” we’ve been intrigued by the idea of sending a microscopic mobile device into the human body to perform specific tasks. It could move around on its own, without a tether, to deliver payloads or grab...
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 Alfred Poor | October 1, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
At Health Tech Insider, we typically post articles about individual projects, products, or research reports. We also generate all of our own content; we don’t publish submitted articles. So this article is a bit of a departure from our normal editorial scope. We...
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...