by Bruce Brown | October 23, 2018 | General News, Health
The CDC reported that in 2015 there were approximately 45 million adults aged 65 or older in the U.S.: about 14% of the population. That number is expected to grow to 80 million — or 20% of the population — by 2050. We’ve written about a variety of...
by Bruce Brown | October 22, 2018 | General News, Medical
Electronic health records (EHRs) may have a greater impact on global medicine than any other new technology. Cast against a wide field of developing technologies with potential significance for health and wellness, EHRs aren’t all that exciting. Wearable...
by Bruce Brown | October 19, 2018 | General News, Health
We don’t usually cover patents in Health Tech Insider; there’s little likelihood that any given patent ever will result in a commercial product. But digital voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri are training consumers to...
by Bruce Brown | October 18, 2018 | General News, Health
New products with claimed medical applications need to clear FDA hurdles to be marketed and sold in the U.S. Products that purport to measure biomarkers with previously untested technologies face extra scrutiny. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an optical technique used...
by Bruce Brown | October 17, 2018 | General News, Health
If people with diabetes Type I and Type II don’t monitor their blood glucose levels regularly, meaning multiple times each day, the consequences can include heart attacks, coma, blindness, and even death. Invasive self-testing, usually with finger pricks to draw...
by Bruce Brown | October 16, 2018 | Fitness, General News, Health
As relatively new technologies, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have caught on quickly for medical and wellness applications. We’ve written about VR-assisted training for amblyopia in Slovakia and physical therapy gamification in Israel....
