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 19, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Research and developments in energy harvesting to power implants and wearables continues to explore fascinating technologies. We’ve written about harvesting energy from human knee motion at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and from carbon nanotube yarn...
by Bruce Brown | February 18, 2020 | Health
Hearables will play a much larger role in the wearables story in the coming years, according to market predictions we’ve reported from Gartner, IDC, and others. Valencell’s recent announcement of cuff-like blood pressure accuracy with a sensor it has...
