by Bruce Brown | December 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
Health tech devices and software aren’t developing in a vacuum. Big data analytics and artificial intelligence including machine learning significantly boost the potential healthcare improvement with sensor-based technology. Voice analysis of huge sample sets,...
by Kimberly Houston | December 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, neuropsychiatric disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. Neuropsychiatric conditions include OCD, anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders like bipolar disorder,...
by Bruce Brown | December 12, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you haven’t already had laser eye surgery, odds are pretty good you will at some time in the future. A Korean-U.S.academic collaboration recently announced new technology that has the potential to improve laser surgery precision significantly. We’ve...
by Kimberly Houston | December 12, 2017 | General News, Medical
Studying how chemical or physical agents interact with our bodies to cause toxicity is fraught with challenges. Testing on human subjects raises ethical concerns, and studies in laboratory animals don’t always accurately mimic results seen in humans. Now...
by Bruce Brown | December 11, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
The Laws of Thermodynamics remain in force, and there still ain’t no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL). But Fujitsu’s recently developed sensor with Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) support may have folks wondering. What Fujitsu is billing in true W. C....
by Bruce Brown | December 8, 2017 | General News, Medical
The communication, collaboration, and coordination benefits of new healthcare technologies don’t pop out of the shipping boxes or gush from Internet connections. Just throwing technology at people in any environment nearly always guarantees failure, even if...