by Alfred Poor | May 4, 2015 | Medical
According to a report in the Financial Times (subscription required), Ford has given up on the development of a smart car seat that can detect a driver’s irregular heart rhythms. The idea is that the car could tell if the driver was incapacitated due to a heart...
by Alfred Poor | May 4, 2015 | Health, Medical
It appears that wearable Health Tech devices have become a hot topic. As revealed in an interview on Beet.TV, technology columnist David Pogue will host the new show that will be called “Your Tech.” Pogue already hosts the PBS science series,...
by Alfred Poor | May 1, 2015 | Health, Medical
No man is an island, and if designed properly, few wearable Health Tech devices should live in isolation, either. Part of the benefit of these new devices comes from being able to aggregate data from many different sources for each individual, and then apply Big Data...
by Alfred Poor | April 30, 2015 | Medical
Formula 1 racing is a high stakes business. Top competitors have annual budgets of $400 million or more to put two drivers and their cars on the race tracks. As a result, it should come as no surprise that race car drivers are some of the most carefully monitored and...
by Alfred Poor | April 29, 2015 | Health, Medical
One of the key features of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) is that it started requiring the use of electronic health records (EHR) as a way to cut costs and increase efficiency in healthcare. One of the side effects of this shift has been the...
by Alfred Poor | April 28, 2015 | Health, Medical
I am often asked what I think it will take for a wearable Health Tech device to be successful. I believe that the key to success will be “invisibility.” By this, I mean that the device has to work without the user having to think about it or fuss with it....
