Artificial Intelligence Predicts COVID-19 Hospital Admissions

by Amantha May | September 9, 2020 | General News, Medical

Socioeconomic determinants of health (SDH) — such as gender, race, and household income — have an impact on who gets infected by COVID-19, who becomes very sick from the disease, and who requires the highest level of life-saving interventions. Predicting...

Your Phone Can Tell If You Have Diabetes [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 8, 2020 | General News, Health

The scourge of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) continues to blind, maim, and cause premature death for a growing number of people worldwide. From 2000 to 2016, diabetes caused a 5% increase in premature mortality, according to the World Health Organization. During that period,...

Lift Tools All Day with New Passive Exoskeleton [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 7, 2020 | General News, Health

Exoskeletons play increasingly important roles in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and industrial worker augmentation and assistance. Last year FutureWise predicted exoskeletons would become a $4 billion industry by the end of 2026. In June, we wrote about...

New Fitness Tracker Fights Childhood Obesity [video]

by Amantha May | September 7, 2020 | General News, Health

There’s no shortage of fitness trackers out there, including trackers designed specifically for kids. Garmin, Fitbit, and Leapfrog offer trackers intended to make exercise fun by making it quantifiable: the same feature that attracts adults to wear their tracker as...

New Study Results Show Fitness Bands Can Detect Virus Infection

by Bruce Brown | September 4, 2020 | Health

After two months of study with more than 100,000 Fitbit users in the trial and 1000+ positive COVID-19 virus reports, Fitbit has released preliminary results from its early disease detection work. The wearables company experts are employing machine learning and...

New Project Keeps Critically Ill Patients Connected to Family [video]

by Amantha May | September 4, 2020 | General News, Health

Between February 1, and May 23, 2020, 91% of all deaths from COVID-19 occurred in a medical center or nursing home, according to a recent study published in July. The authors of the study called on care facilities to make virtual technology available to keep all...