by Amantha May | May 20, 2020 | Medical
Mention remote patient monitoring, and most of us immediately think of a device that sends data regarding an offsite patient to an in-clinic healthcare team. The Mount Sinai Health System and Google, however, have a different take on the idea of remote patient...
by Bruce Brown | May 19, 2020 | Enabling Tech
The range of potential skin patch applications in health monitoring is astounding. We’ve covered various skin patch technology developments for several years. In 2014, Alfred Poor wrote about collaboration at Northwestern University and the University of...
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...
