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by Kimberly Houston | October 31, 2017 | General News, Health
While the standard office worker may worry about the negative health impact of sitting too much, workers at factories, plants, construction sites, oil rigs, and mines can face deadly threats just by the nature of the work they do. A little digging on the Occupational...
by Bruce Brown | October 30, 2017 | General News, Medical
“If you build it, they will come.” That strategy worked for Kevin Costner’s Field of Dreams character Ray, a farmer who attracted ghosts of baseball greats to a ball diamond he constructed in an Iowa cornfield. If you have an idea for a nifty mHealth...
by Jim Ware | October 30, 2017 | General News, Medical
How would you like to manage your medical records or find the nearest hospital from the Apple Watch on your wrist? Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has an app for that and more. The Cedars-Sinai app also allows patients to communicate with doctors, check...
by Bruce Brown | October 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Communications is much more than just words. A classic UCLA study by (now) Professor Emeritus Albert Mehrabian argued only “7% of message relating to feelings and attitudes is in the words that are spoken.” The remaining 93% of the message is derived from...
by Bruce Brown | October 26, 2017 | General News, Medical
Patient survival rate increases with faster treatment following a myocardial infarction, more commonly known as a heart attack. We wrote previously about CathMaps+, a mobile app that can give directions to the closest hospital with a cardiac catheter lab and stores...
by Kimberly Houston | October 26, 2017 | General News, Health
According to a recent article published by the University of Leeds, 300,000 patients a year in England get hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), which leads to increased treatment costs and threats to patient safety. Hospital doors are one of the biggest culprits of...
