Cough Diagnosing App Gets CE Certification

by Alfred Poor | September 2, 2019 | Health, Medical

We first covered ResApp more than three years ago. The company has developed a smartphone app that can diagnose the different types of childhood coughs, simply by analyzing a sound sample recorded by a phone. It can distinguish between lower respiratory tract disease,...

Retinal Prosthesis to Restore Vision

by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Scientists at Okayama University report progress creating prosthetic technology that stimulates degenerated retinal tissues. According to the CDC, nearly 10 million people in the U.S. currently suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or diabetic...

Stretchable Sensor Enables Long-term Monitoring [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Continuous biometric monitoring provides more valuable data than single readings, but concerns about patient comfort and convenience must be considered. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and...

Outpatient Telehealth Adoption Rate Holding Steady

by Bruce Brown | August 28, 2019 | Medical

Outpatient telehealth services plateaued in 2019, according to a recent survey of physicians and healthcare administrators. Healthcare provider data analytics company Definitive Healthcare’s 2019 Outpatient Telehealth Study found adoption rates holding steady at...

Handheld Skin Cancer Diagnosis Breakthrough

by Bruce Brown | August 27, 2019 | Enabling Tech

As an adult on the far side of middle age who lives in the South, I have an annual dermatology checkup. Most years my doctor finds a questionable spot or two on my skin. I suspect he can tell whether an area is a likely concern on visual inspection, but he is willing...

Thin Skin Human-Machine Interface Wearable [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 26, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Did you touch and taste unknown substances to identify them when you were young? Most of us share that past experience and while we may continue the procedure in our kitchens, we don’t employ that method of inspection as a general practice. Researchers at the...