by Bruce Brown | January 3, 2019 | Health, Medical
In early 2017, we wrote about a shift in wearable health tech to clinical grade devices. The market was slowing for basic fitness trackers but interest in wearables from the medical and research communities was a driving force for high-quality health and medical...
by Bruce Brown | January 1, 2019 | Health
As established entities solidify their places in the health, wellness, and medical technology markets, the trend toward synergy and collaboration continues. We wrote recently about a joint effort by the Mayo Clinic and Eko to develop AI to detect heart disease....
by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2018 | Health
Virtual reality (VR) provides intense and fully engaging experiences, but augmented reality (AR) applications by definition allow people to carry on their daily routines while the technology adds something extra. We’ve written about work with AR at Stanford with...
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by Bruce Brown | December 28, 2018 | Health
Feeling depressed or judging experience as “depressing” are universes away from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Most people can shake off minor depression, but patients who suffer from MDD don’t have a choice. Someone with MDD can’t just...
by Bruce Brown | December 27, 2018 | Health
Opioid overdoses continue to tear apart our communities. There were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the U.S in 2017, according to the CDC, of which 47,600 were opioid overdoses. West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Kentucky had the highest rates of...
by Bruce Brown | December 25, 2018 | Health
Telemedicine in its various forms was one of our most frequent topics on Health Tech Insider during 2018. News about related topics seem to pop up weekly: remote patient and physician access via telephone, text, video conferencing, store-and-forward, and cloud data...
