New Report Shows Your Health App Data Is at Risk

by Bruce Brown | February 18, 2021 | Medical

For several years experts have warned about security threats to personal health data. In 2018, ECRI Institute singled out cybersecurity as the most significant in its 2019 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report. Also in 2018, a group of studies and reports found that...

Wearables Help Cancer Patients Manage Pain at Home

by Bruce Brown | February 17, 2021 | Medical

We write about wearables of all sorts. We’ve covered wearables to track steps, check heart rates, monitor breathing rates, measure blood glucose levels, and even record ECGs. Depending on how far you push the definition of a wearable, the field of devices and...

Nemaura Launches an Arsenal to Beat T2 Diabetes [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2021 | Health, Medical

We don’t need to reiterate the U.S. and global statistics on obesity, overweight, and diabetes. The numbers are huge, scary, and in a good year, they hold at current levels. We’ve written many times about devices and programs to detect and manage Type 2...

Monitoring COVID Patients at Home Eases Strain on Hospitals [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 12, 2021 | Medical

We’ve noted COVID-19’s effect on the support for and growth of telemedicine before. Last month we wrote about HD Medical Group’s HealthyU, a remote patient monitoring (RPM) handheld device with multiple sensors to measure vital signs. Last...

Telehealth with Your Own TV [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 11, 2021 | Medical

Telehealth, telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) made great strides in the past few years. We’ve covered about a wide range of telemedicine applications including Philips and Toothpic’s telehealth dental selfies, Current Health’s...

New Disposable Insulin Pump Requires No Batteries

by Bruce Brown | February 10, 2021 | Medical

In the CDC’s 2020 National Diabetes Statistics Report, the national health protection agency states that 34.2 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. That number represents 10.5% of the U.S. population, including 26.9 million diagnosed people and 7.3 million...