by Bruce Brown | May 18, 2020 | Medical
Last fall, Stanford Medicine announced the development of a new life science innovation lab and incubator in a recently vacated building in Stanford Research Park. One section of the new facility — Stanford Medicine Healthcare Innovation Lab — now is going...
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by Amantha May | May 18, 2020 | Health, Medical
Daniel Freeman, Profession of clinical psychology at Oxford University and co-founder of Oxford VR, believes that VR technology can revolutionize mental health care. In April, Oxford VR published a new whitepaper that demonstrates how the company’s VR platform...
by Bruce Brown | May 15, 2020 | Medical
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a significant risk. Every day more than 3% of patients in treatment at U.S. healthcare facilities contract an HAI, according to the CDC. As hard as hospitals and other healthcare facilities work to prevent HAIs, the...
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by Amantha May | May 15, 2020 | Medical
An inhaler can potentially save the life of a young child who suffers from asthma or a respiratory infection that causes wheezing symptoms. But parents and their young ones face challenges when it comes to using an inhaler with a spacer correctly. Rafi-Tone, an...
by Bruce Brown | May 14, 2020 | Health
We’ve written about several technologies developed for COVID-19 testing or remote patient monitoring. Vancouver, British Columbia-based industrial workforce safety company Proxxi recently announced a new wearable to support two additional elements in...
by Bruce Brown | May 13, 2020 | Health, Medical
The global demand for solutions to test for COVID-19 continues to produce results. We’ve written about several technology implementations that monitor biomarkers relevant to the pandemic virus. Earlier this year, we wrote about Denver-based BioIntellisense...
