by Bruce Brown | January 31, 2020 | Medical
More than 90% of patients who have knee or hip replacement surgery experience postoperative lower extremity swelling (edema). Last year we wrote about Spryng’s battery-powered pneumatic wraps designed to apply rhythmic pressure to the lower legs to prevent...
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by Bruce Brown | January 28, 2020 | Medical
If wearables’ announcements were Bingo games with chips for hot topics, Denver-based BioIntellisense just won the evening’s $500 grand prize. The company’s cost-effective, Data-as-as-Service (DaaS) platform’s medical-grade, single-use,...
by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2020 | Medical
The incidence of pregnancy-related maternal death in the United States has more than doubled from 7.2 per 100,000 live births in 1987 to 16.9 per 100,000 in 2016. According to NPR and ProPublica, American mothers die of pregnancy-related complications more than in any...
by Alfred Poor | January 27, 2020 | Conferences, Health, Medical
[Editor’s note: We are going to try posting announcements about conferences and other events that are of interest to the digital health tech community at large. I welcome your feedback and suggestions. Are these posts helpful? Would you rather have a separate...
by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2020 | Medical
Today’s headlines announce the latest confirmed global numbers of cases and deaths of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. We won’t know the outcome of nCoV for months, possibly years. However, we do know that overdose deaths from opioids in the U.S. increased...
by Bruce Brown | January 21, 2020 | Medical
Telemedicine benefits include outreach to patients in remote areas and helping make scarce healthcare resources more accessible. Digital visits also save time and travel expenses for both patients and healthcare professionals. We’ve written about a wide range of...
