by Amantha May | September 25, 2020 | General News, Health, Medical
Healthcare providers around the country began implementing telehealth services seemingly the instant the COVID-19 crisis began to trigger statewide shutdowns in the United States. However, Americans who don’t have access to technology or the Internet can’t take...
by Amantha May | September 21, 2020 | General News, Medical
No single non-invasive test can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Providers rely on a combination of symptoms, health history, cognitive assessment, brain imaging, and psychological evaluation to piece together a picture from which they can make a reasonable...
by Amantha May | September 16, 2020 | General News, Medical
The term “health tech” is an umbrella term that encompasses a vast spectrum of technologies ranging from personal health trackers to off-road wheelchairs to living, 3D printed human tissue. Digital therapeutics, an important category that falls under the...
by Amantha May | September 11, 2020 | General News, Medical
Parents of children with Type 1 diabetes face the extraordinary challenge of monitoring their child’s blood glucose levels day and night. A national clinical trial has demonstrated that an artificial pancreas system, first developed at the University of Virginia, does...
by Bruce Brown | September 10, 2020 | Health, Medical
We now have a new way that your smartphone could save your life, using a simple selfie. Conventional camera sales tumbled after the 2007 launch of the first generation Apple iPhone with a 2MP rear camera. Apple’s 2010 iPhone 4 introduction gave the world the...
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by Bruce Brown | September 9, 2020 | Medical
Telemedicine has been a significant success story in the past few years. Telemedical remote access for specialist consults, rehab support, and post-discharge remote patient monitoring are among the early poster applications of the growing technology....
