Center to Drive Health Technology [video]

by Alfred Poor | September 26, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

Digital health and related fields are growing at an unprecedented rate. Each day brings new technology advances and discoveries. One major challenge is finding ways to share all this new information efficiently, and to help the innovators connect with the healthcare...

WaaS: Wellness as a Service

by Alfred Poor | September 22, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

[Click on image for larger version] I recently came across an intriguing blog post in support of the HyperWellbeing conference to be held in November in Mountain View, California. While the conference itself sounds interesting, I was taken by a concept put forward in...

Wearables and Machine Learning Target Huntington Disease

by Bruce Brown | September 21, 2016 | General News, Medical

It has taken a while for wearable tech to move beyond early adopter gadget status to significance in medical research and healthcare. The clock appears to be speeding up. An announcement by Intel Corporation and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries of a collaboration to...

Good Wearable Design for the Elderly

by Alfred Poor | September 21, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

It may seem obvious, but you have to know your market when you’re designing a new product or service. This is especially true if you’re creating a consumer electronics device, or if you want to create something for the elderly to use. And if you’re...

Health Study Includes Genetic Information

by Alfred Poor | September 20, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

The enticing appeal of “the quantified self” centers on the idea that if we knew enough about enough factors for enough individuals, we could discover all sorts of useful insights into how we can help people stay healthy. Pool all that information into one...

Wearables Integrate with Patient Data to Warn of Seizures [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 19, 2016 | General News, Medical

The initial divide between consumer wearables and clinical medicine may be shrinking. A group of medical and technology entities in the United Kingdom launched a model that integrates wearable Health Tech with medical data and clinical care. The focus on epilepsy was...