by Bruce Brown | September 24, 2019 | Medical
Prosthetic legs help lower-limb amputees regain mobility. Fitting a patient with a prosthetic only starts the process. Patients then need to learn how to walk with a prosthetic, a period that is often physically and mentally exhausting. Our feet and legs provide...
by Bruce Brown | September 23, 2019 | Medical
You can have the most innovative medical treatment in the world, but if physicians can’t get paid for it, they won’t use it. The U.S. health care system relies on Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to report, measure, analyze, and bill medical and...
by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2019 | Health
Hay fever is nothing to sneeze at. Between 10% and 30% of the global population suffers from allergic rhinitis — hayfever — according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. Common treatments for allergic sinus pain include...
by Bruce Brown | September 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Spending on virtual and augmented reality hardware, systems, and applications will exceed $20 billion during 2019, according to a 2018 IDC report. Games and consumer video viewing continue as the AR/VR application front runners, but industrial, commercial,...
by Bruce Brown | September 18, 2019 | Enabling Tech
The current opioid abuse epidemic has created strong interest in pain management solutions that do not require drugs. The fact remains that some situations still may be best addressed using medications. Researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale...
by Bruce Brown | September 17, 2019 | Medical
The TÜV Rheinland European regulatory body recently awarded Swedish-based Brighter two EC certifications for Actiste, the company’s single-device solution for diabetes monitoring and treatment management. The regulatory granted Medical Device Directive (MDD) and...