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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...
by Alfred Poor | September 21, 2018 | General News, Medical
I may have seen the future of remote patient monitoring. Or to be more accurate, I have worn it. And it’s available now. One drawback with healthcare as it is currently practiced is that patients see physicians in hospitals and offices where their vital signs...
by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Health and medical technology developments comprise the majority of our coverage on Health Tech Insider, especially for wearable and mobile devices. We also write about wearable tech that protects, alerts, or enhances in the workplace and everyday life. For example,...
