Telemedicine Accreditation Standards for Clinical Services and Delivery

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

Telemedicine and mobile health offer great promises for remote care, resource efficiency, and cost controls. As with any new technology, many product and service providers will rush to the marketplace. A good number of the would-be telemedicine participants will fail...

Standard Wearables Detect Early Signs of Diabetes

by Kimberly Houston | February 15, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 100 million U.S. adults are living with diabetes or prediabetes (a condition that can lead to type 2 diabetes if not treated). Diabetes can often be managed through physical activity, diet, and...

Pulse Device Relieves Chronic Pain Without Drugs

by Bruce Brown | February 14, 2018 | General News, Health

The opioid crisis grew out of pharmaceutical solutions for chronic severe pain management, and it won’t recede until medicine, science, and the private sector create effective non-drug pain treatments. History shows any war on drugs focused solely on law...

Telehealth Weight Loss Program Proves Effective

by Kimberly Houston | February 14, 2018 | General News, Health

We all know excess weight adversely affects our health. Obesity increases the risk for many serious diseases and conditions, including hypertension (high blood pressure), type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some cancers, to name just a few. But knowing that...

Smart Thermometer Data Tracks Spreading Flu [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2018 | General News, Health

The winter 2017-2018 flu season rages on, with millions of U.S. victims getting very sick with a malady that takes a long time to move on. Seasonal influenza, aka the flu, has a hospitalization rate of 51.4 per 100,000 people, higher than rate recorded at this stage...

Smart Pill Monitors Stomach Gases [video]

by Kimberly Houston | February 13, 2018 | General News, Medical

A healthy gut is a topic that gets a lot of attention these days, especially as findings increasingly suggest that digestive health impacts other areas of human health. Microbes, also called gut flora or microbiota, help with our digestion. According to the National...