Wireless Thermometer Tracks Fever

Wireless Thermometer Tracks Fever

by | December 1, 2014 | Health, Medical

Here comes flu season. Even a common cold can cause a person to run a fever, which can cause aches and feeling just plain lousy. Traditionally, you would take a patient’s temperature every few hours, and adjust medication and other treatments as required. But it...
Philips Tackles COPD with Wearable Prototype

Philips Tackles COPD with Wearable Prototype

by | December 1, 2014 | Medical

Two facts sum up much of the interest in wearable Health Tech devices and services. The first is that chronic conditions are responsible for a major share of healthcare costs and deaths every year. The second is the hope that more data about individuals and the...
Tele-Medicine for Your Skin [video]

Tele-Medicine for Your Skin [video]

by | November 28, 2014 | Medical

How many times have you looked at something on your skin — or on someone close to you — and thought “Maybe I should get that looked at.” Now there’s an app for that. First Derm is a smartphone app that lets you take a photo of your skin...
International Effort to Validate Health Tech Data

International Effort to Validate Health Tech Data

by | November 26, 2014 | Health, Medical

When it comes to gathering, the honeybee is perhaps the most tireless and focused animal on the planet. Perhaps that’s why it was chosen as the namesake for a program by researchers at Arizona State University. Project HoneyBee is a program intended to validate...
IDTechEx: Wearable Artificial Pancreas [video]

IDTechEx: Wearable Artificial Pancreas [video]

by | November 21, 2014 | Medical

Pancreum was one of the many wearable Health Tech companies that made presentations at the IDTechEx conference this week in Santa Clara, California. The company is focused on remote patient monitoring and similar applications. According to Guilherme de Paul, founder...