Mobile Data Predicts Diabetes Using Personalized AI

by Bruce Brown | November 19, 2018 | General News, Health

Diabetes cuts a wide swath across the U.S. population and is an inviting opportunity for health tech development. Unlike many cancers and neurological diseases, the biological mechanisms involved in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are relatively well-understood, which...

Wearables Predict Falls [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 9, 2018 | General News, Health

Many seniors live in dread of falls. If you fall and break your hip, as my Mother did as we were leaving a restaurant in early February a few years back, you might not get home for months. My Mom didn’t go home until the end of May. As we wrote in June this...

Muse 2 Adds Sensors to Support Meditation

by Bruce Brown | November 6, 2018 | General News, Health

Mindfulness practices in the workplace result in improved health and lower employers costs, according to original research supported by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, published by the CDC. According to...

Medical Alerts Trump Consumer Security Concerns

by Bruce Brown | November 2, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

  We seldom hear about advances in healthcare technology that are not data-centric. New types and uses for sensors, transmission tech, analytical algorithms, and reporting software are all potential points of information security vulnerability. We’ve noted...

AI-based Family Planning App Comparable to the Pill

by Bruce Brown | November 1, 2018 | General News, Health

Pharmaceutical and mechanical methods for avoiding pregnancy have the highest effectiveness rates. New approaches that claim equivalent or better performance often use spotty science or dubious measurement reporting. We raised a flag when the FDA recently cleared a...

Smart Stickers Alert At-Risk Heart Patients [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 31, 2018 | General News, Health

Heart surgery is scary enough when patients anticipate what could happen during the procedure. After hospital discharge, however, heart surgery patients can find the need to self-monitor even more worrisome. The concern is not unfounded, as a 2016 study in Progressive...