Hospital Wayfinding App Guides Patients and Visitors

by Bruce Brown | November 7, 2017 | General News, Medical

From surgery theaters to hospital parking lots and beyond, mobile and wearable health tech hardware developments and apps play ever-widening roles in the complex wellness and medical worlds. Sensors in exoskeletal appliances assist mobility and balance, and remote...

Electrify Brain to Speed Learning

by Kimberly Houston | November 7, 2017 | General News, Health

One persistent myth in popular culture about the human brain is that we only use 10% of it. In fact, scientists have found that most of the human brain is actively in use over the course of a normal day. But that doesn’t mean we can’t improve brain function with...

Pneumonia Diagnostic Jacket Saves Ugandan Lives

by Bruce Brown | November 6, 2017 | General News, Medical

If you were making a list of difficult field diagnoses for deadly diseases, pneumonia would be at or near the top. UNICEF reports that “pneumonia kills half a million children under five in sub-Saharan Africa each year.” According to Dr. Mark Young, UNICEF...

In-home Vision Screener Tracks Changes Over Time [video]

by Jim Ware | November 6, 2017 | General News, Health

What if getting your eyes checked were as easy as strapping a View-Master-like device to your smartphone and following a series of on-screen prompts? If EyeQue’s kickstarter succeeds, its Insight visual acuity screeners will ship as early as March 18. The...

Wearable Gesture Detection Reveals Dietary Behaviors

by Bruce Brown | November 3, 2017 | General News, Health

  Obesity rates in the U.S. remain high and are edging higher in spite of more than a decade of warnings. The most recent CDC statistics show that more than one third of all U.S. adults are obese. Despite the growing evidence of health threats related to obesity,...

States Actively Legislating Telehealth Services [video]

by Jim Ware | November 3, 2017 | General News, Medical

Increasingly, shrinks trade their couches for video screens as a result of advances in state telehealth legislation. That means patients pour their hearts out from the comfort of their homes instead of trekking across town. These advances also mean payers such as...