Sun-Powered Wearable

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...

Low-Cost Ultrasound Transducer Technology [video]

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...

Wearable Sweat Sensors Measure Biomarkers

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...

Health Tech Insider Reaches Major Milestone

by Alfred Poor | September 26, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical

Just over four years ago, Health Tech Insider was launched. Our mission has evolved and been refined over those years, but in the final analysis we continue to cover wearable and mobile devices for health and medical applications, along with the supporting...

Elvie Wearable Breast Pump [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 25, 2018 | General News, Health

With groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending that infants be exclusively breastfed for the first six months or longer, it’s no wonder the rates of breastfed babies have risen dramatically in...

Non-Contact Monitor Detects Respiratory Depression [video]

by Alfred Poor | September 25, 2018 | General News, Medical

The opioid addiction epidemic has created a wide range of problems for healthcare professionals across the country and worldwide. One of the less visible problems is that an overdose patient is not necessarily safe once they are admitted to a hospital for treatment....