by Bruce Brown | January 1, 2021 | Medical
Sudden cardiac arrest is a killer. According to the CDC, approximately 209,000 people in the U.S. are treated for in-hospital cardia arrest (IHCA) annually. Those were the lucky ones, because they were already in the hospital. In 2015, for example, about 357,000...
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by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2020 | Medical
According to a study published by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), more than 2.5 million people in the U.S. develop pressure ulcers each year. Pressure ulcers — also called bedsores — occur often with patients in hospitals but...
by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2020 | Medical
A panel of expert judges named the Widex Moment machine-learning hearable technology a CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree in two categories: Health & Wellness and Wearable Technologies. We wrote about Widex Moment in November. The Consumer Trade Association (CTA)...
by Bruce Brown | December 28, 2020 | Medical
We write frequently about telemedicine and remote patient monitoring (RPM). RPM platforms typically enable healthcare professionals to interact with patients in their own homes and track clinical data from wearables or other connected devices. People cite many...
by Bruce Brown | December 25, 2020 | Medical
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the growing value of telemedicine. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) and patient-clinician engagement without in-person meetings improve timely intervention while protecting high-risk individuals from viral infection at both ends of the...
by Amantha May | December 25, 2020 | Health, Medical
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, about one in five Americans over 18 suffer from mental illness. Yet more than half of those 51.5 million adults haven’t received any treatment for their condition. A significant barrier to accessing...
