by Bruce Brown | October 12, 2017 | General News, Medical
Wearable Health Tech remains our center-of-focus at Health Tech Insider. We also look at health technology advances that one can wear, touch, carry, hold, or get near. Therefore, we are interested in what’s known as the “connected patient.” The...
by Kimberly Houston | October 12, 2017 | General News, Health
Maybe you got a fitness tracker like Fitbit and were eager to begin tracking your activity, exercise, sleep, and weight to improve your health. But like many Americans, you found it inconvenient to use and no longer wear it much. Or perhaps you have health issues that...
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by Bruce Brown | October 11, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
About one in ten babies born in the U.S. is delivered pre-term, before completing 37 weeks of pregnancy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest report on premature birth rates also states that babies’ brains, lungs, and liver...
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by Kimberly Houston | October 11, 2017 | General News, Health
We’ve all been there: you’re in an environment where you’re too hot or too cold, but you can’t do anything about it because you’re not in charge of the temperature control. Now a company has developed a thermal wristband to address this problem. The Embr Wave aims to...
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by Bruce Brown | October 10, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Research and development entities use the term “smart bandages” to describe their technologies’ function or features. Unfortunately no common understanding of what makes a bandage “smart” has emerged. Smart tech implies the ability to...
by Kimberly Houston | October 10, 2017 | General News, Health
Early detection of skin cancer can drastically improve patient outcomes. Scheduling a quick appointment with a dermatologist every time a skin abnormality appears, however, may keep us from seeing a doctor about it. Now a Miami-based health tech company is developing...
