Unintended Consequences: Marketing Uses of Health Tech Data

by Alfred Poor | April 21, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

We often talk about how Health Tech data from a community of people has the potential to reveal valuable information about disease detection, diagnosis, and treatment, and how this sort of Big Data analytics could save money and lives. But there’s a potential...

Wearable Facilitates Crowd-Sourced MS Study

by Alfred Poor | April 20, 2015 | Health, Medical

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects a patient’s ability to walk. Unfortunately, the only assessment of their impairment usually happens during an office visit with their physician. More detailed information about day to day experiences could provide healthcare...

Measure Patient Vital Signs without Contact [video]

by Alfred Poor | April 15, 2015 | Health, Medical

We have all sorts of sensors that we can embed in wearable Health Tech devices that can measure all sorts of important biometric data, including standard patient vital signs such as heart rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure, and blood oxygen levels. However,...

Obesity Costs Corporations Billions

by Alfred Poor | April 15, 2015 | Fitness, Health

According to a recent article by Reuters, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control report that obesity costs U.S. employers more than $70 billion every year, due to absenteeism and healthcare expenses. This is money that could be better spent on higher salaries and more...

IBM Watson Moves Forward in Medicine [video]

by Alfred Poor | April 14, 2015 | Health, Medical

Last fall, we reported on IBM’s partnership with GenieMD to apply Watson’s cognitive computing to medical Big Data applications. Now the company has announced IBM Watson Health to expand these types of applications. In the process, IBM has acquired the...

Another Smartwatch for Health Tracking [video]

by Alfred Poor | April 13, 2015 | Health, Medical

With all the recent coverage of another certain smartwatch, it’s easy to think that it’s a one-brand market. The fact is that many companies also have smartwatches, with new ones being announced all the time. Still, it would not be a surprise if you missed...