Robot Assists Nurses with Manual Tasks [video]

by Bruce Brown | December 17, 2018 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Hospitals teem with busy healthcare professionals in seemingly ceaseless motion. Several companies and institutions focus on robotic assistants to alleviate demands on clinical staff members. Last month we wrote about engineers from the University of Toronto who are...

Report: Big Data and AI to Lead 2019 Health Tech Change

by Bruce Brown | December 14, 2018 | General News, Medical

The technology toolkit employed in healthcare solution development contains many fascinating components. we now depend on new sensors for a myriad of health, wellness, and medical applications, wireless transmission standards, power sources, and algorithms used...

VR/AI Tech Eases Hot Flashes [video]

by Bruce Brown | December 13, 2018 | Medical

What do you get when you cross virtual reality experiences and artificial intelligence (AI) analytics with individual biometrics, behavior, and interactions? You get Cross Reality (XR). We’ve seen VRPhysio’s virtual reality platform used to gamify physical...

Stanford’s Autism Glass Project Is Recruiting [video]

by Bruce Brown | December 12, 2018 | Medical

When Google introduced Google Glass with a $1,500 developer edition in 2013, the nerd factor ran high. If Google had any thoughts that the general public would heartily embrace Glass, that trial balloon drifted into the ether within a year. There are two application...

Telemedicine Protects Heart Failure Patients

by Bruce Brown | December 7, 2018 | General News, Medical

Telemedicine is still in its early days but its adoption is growing rapidly now that CMS has approved its use for Medicare patients. Researchers and healthcare organizations around the world are experimenting with remote care technology in various forms to find the...

Images of Patient Plaque Prompt Compliance

by Bruce Brown | December 6, 2018 | General News, Medical

Poor patient compliance plagues medical practice, but pictures might help. A New England Healthcare Institute study in 2009 found that non-adherence to treatment plans cost up to $290 billion annually. Also, “those with low levels of adherence have almost twice...