by Alfred Poor | September 26, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
Just over four years ago, Health Tech Insider was launched. Our mission has evolved and been refined over those years, but in the final analysis we continue to cover wearable and mobile devices for health and medical applications, along with the supporting...
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by Bruce Brown | September 25, 2018 | General News, Health
With groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending that infants be exclusively breastfed for the first six months or longer, it’s no wonder the rates of breastfed babies have risen dramatically in...
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by Alfred Poor | September 25, 2018 | General News, Medical
The opioid addiction epidemic has created a wide range of problems for healthcare professionals across the country and worldwide. One of the less visible problems is that an overdose patient is not necessarily safe once they are admitted to a hospital for treatment....
by Bruce Brown | September 24, 2018 | General News, Medical
When you can’t tell what’s wrong with someone in pain or you need more information to diagnose and treat a patient in need, ultrasound scanning is often one of the first investigative tools. This digital imaging technology is non-invasive and practically...
by Alfred Poor | September 24, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
As we have pointed out here repeatedly, virtual reality (VR) glasses tend to get the lion’s share of media coverage, while augmented reality (AR) glasses keep racking up wins in enterprise markets. Both have important health and medical applications. VR glasses...
by Bruce Brown | September 21, 2018 | General News, Medical
Artificial intelligence, especially in the form of machine learning, keeps popping up in reports and studies of new and developing health and medical technologies. We’ve written about machine learning used to target Huntington Disease, predict pain level, and...
