by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2019 | Health, Medical
CES has become the leading show for health tech. The number of exhibitors with health and medical products has grown rapidly in recent years. Nowhere else can you find so many companies in one place, from huge multinational corporations to tiny startups and university...
by Bruce Brown | February 8, 2019 | Medical
When we first wrote about EarlySense in January 2017 following CES, we noted the multisensory patient under-mattress monitor’s versatility and accuracy. The second part of the article focused on the potential benefits to patients and hospitals in early patient...
by Bruce Brown | February 4, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Smart pills represent a new way to combine technologies in which each element in the stack plays a critical role. The essential components of digital medications include a drug, an ingestible sensor, a wearable patch that receives data from the ingestible sensor, and...
by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2019 | Medical
Telemedicine use is growing rapidly. We’ve written about imaging store and forward services for specialist access, remote consults for brain tumor second opinions, telepsychiatric visits, and much more. From the recent spate of media attention to telemedicine...
by Bruce Brown | January 21, 2019 | Medical
Hypoglycemia — low blood glucose — is a dangerous and potentially fatal condition most commonly experienced by people with Type 1 diabetes. Diabetics aim to keep their blood sugar levels in the healthy 70-180 mg/dL range as much as possible by managing...
by Bruce Brown | January 18, 2019 | Health, Medical
Giants in technology and neighborhood retail pharmacy have their eyes on the clouds and boots on the ground as they get ready to shake up global healthcare. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) CEO Stefano Pessina jointly announced an effort...
