Patient Monitoring Wearable Reduces Pressure Injuries [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 21, 2018 | General News, Medical

More than 2.5 million people in the United States develop pressure ulcers each year, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Also known as bedsores, these ulcers result from a lack of movement, usually involving immobile patients in bed or...

AI Helps Troubled Kids Make Wiser Decisions

by Bruce Brown | June 20, 2018 | General News, Health

Healthcare employs artificial intelligence in growing number of applications. The machine learning is form of AI that is “taught” to recognize, categorize, diagnose, engage with patients, or recommend treatment. It shows up in many branches of medicine....

NurseCaller Home-Care Patient Call Button [video]

by Bruce Brown | June 19, 2018 | General News, Health

When a hospital admits you, the call button is one of the first items brought to your attention. The button is often tied to a bed rail or pinned to your sheets. Trains, buses, and airplanes have an emergency cords stop or help buttons. Even the ride-sharing company...

White Paper: Best Practices for Choosing Mobile and IoT Devices

by Bruce Brown | June 18, 2018 | General News, Medical

Connected mobile devices, wearable sensors, and electronic health records (EHR) play a major part in how the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing healthcare. People responsible for Healthcare IT face the daunting challenge of integrating these fast-moving technologies...

Smartphone App Can Diagnose Sleep Apnea

by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

Most people just want to get a good night’s sleep, but that’s not always easy. Snoring can disturb the slumber of both the individual who snores and anyone who shares the same sleeping space. The Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study found that nearly one in four...

AI Detects Breast Cancer Survivors’ Lymphedema

by Bruce Brown | June 15, 2018 | General News, Medical

Artificial intelligence (AI) — specifically in the form of machine learning — plays an increasingly important role in medicine and healthcare. Machine learning is a type of AI in which the “learning” is derived from statistical analytics...