by Bruce Brown | January 31, 2019 | Health
“How are you sleeping these days?” “How’d you sleep last night?” If anyone asked you those questions lately, you are not alone. Wearable health and medical technology advances and awareness both factor in a discernable increase in the...
by Bruce Brown | January 30, 2019 | Health
Wearable skin patches with microfluidic sensors can monitor various biometrics from sweat. Professor John Rogers from Northwestern University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics is one of the leaders in the field. Last year we wrote about Rogers’ work...
by Bruce Brown | January 29, 2019 | Health
Technology isn’t holding us back from continuously monitoring biometric wearables. If we choose, soon we’ll all be able to wear garments that serve an expanded range of functions beyond protecting our skin from sun and weather. In the past few years,...
by Bruce Brown | January 28, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and big data have already disrupted conventional health tech research and development in significant ways; many of our posts on Health Tech Insider mention the technology, the algorithms, and the bits and bytes....
by Bruce Brown | January 25, 2019 | Enabling Tech
We’ve written before about smart homes for seniors and ways in which wearable health tech and smart homes can work in conjunction. We’ve also covered robots of various types, from telepresence enablers to smart exoskeletons and prosthetics that aid human...
by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Low-cost, low-power Bluetooth wireless technology enables many wearable healthtech devices. In ideal conditions, Low-Energy Bluetooth transmits further than an American football field (>100 meters), but for most health tech applications, a 10 to 20-foot range is more...