by Bruce Brown | February 24, 2020 | Medical
If doctors aren’t willing to use new digital health and medical technologies, then the best engineering, design work, and clinical studies won’t make it far beyond the labs and publications. We wrote in 2015 about consumers accepting health data...
by Alfred Poor | February 21, 2020 | Medical
Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the body fails to properly regulate blood sugar levels. Treatment often involves finger pricks to measure glucose levels, followed by insulin injections to maintain the desired range. This approach has many inconvenient,...
by Alfred Poor | February 21, 2020 | Medical
For many months, I have been stating that we’ve missed an inflection point in healthcare; we have passed the tipping point for telehealth and it is on its way to become a common feature in healthcare in the U.S. Remote patient monitoring and virtual visits are...
by Bruce Brown | February 21, 2020 | Medical
Augmented reality (AR) may play a larger role in medicine and healthcare applications than virtual reality (VR), but the immersive engagement of VR makes it the better choice for some treatments. In 2019 we wrote about a study at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center that found...
by Bruce Brown | February 20, 2020 | Medical
Wearable patch biosensor technology applications for in-hospital and remote patient monitoring are rapidly gaining traction as developers gain expertise. As predicted in 2017’s Connected Wearable Patches report, clinical applications of wearable patches are the...
by Bruce Brown | February 17, 2020 | Medical
Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is the most extreme form of peripheral artery disease (PAD). CLI mortality rates are as high as 20% in the first six months after diagnosis. Characterized by poor quality of life, 6-month lower limb amputation rates from 10% to 40%, and...
