Device Helps Children Strengthen Breathing [video]

by Alfred Poor | November 5, 2014 | Medical

According to the makers of Alvio, asthma is the third-leading cause for hospitalization of children under the age of 15. Children with asthma miss a total of 14 million school days a year. Some studies have shown that when patients can exercise their breathing and...

Microsoft Health Sends Health Tech Data to the Cloud

by Alfred Poor | November 4, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical

Last week, Microsoft made headlines with the announcement of their new wearable fitness band. Many news outlets paid much less attention to the unveiling of Microsoft Health, a new cloud-based service that gathers data from devices ranging from fitness bands to other...

Boogio Inserts Create Smart Shoes [video]

by Alfred Poor | November 4, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical

  There’s another entry in the “smart shoe” market segment. Boogio is a new product from REFLX Labs that you can insert in any pair of shoes. Four sensors for each foot measure the pressure and acceleration applied at each point. These connect...

Apple Health App Goofs on Glucose Monitoring

by Alfred Poor | November 3, 2014 | Medical

According to a report in Mobile Health News last month, Apple has a problem with patient-entered glucose readings in its Health app. Devices in the U.S. and some other countries measure blood glucose levels in “milligrams per deciliter” (mg/dL). In some...

Disposable Wireless Sensors Get a Boost

by Alfred Poor | October 31, 2014 | Medical

Gentac is a company that makes disposable wireless sensor patches. These battery-less devices rely on the same near-field communications (NFC) technology found in many smartphones to read the sensor’s data from a distance. In a hospital setting, this means that...

UCLA Undergrad Group to Create Health Tech Projects [video]

by Alfred Poor | October 29, 2014 | Medical

Many college students see their lives as “on hold” until they can graduate and start working on projects that matter. Five undergraduates at UCLA decided that they don’t want to wait, so they created the new Bruin Medical Entrepreneurs group. This is...