CES 2018: Digital Health Summit Panel [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 20, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

Last month at CES 2018, I had the honor of moderating the opening panel for the second day of the Digital Health Summit, produced by Living in Digital Times. The video of the session is available to view for free by clicking here. The session was titled “Meet...

AI-based Patient Follow-up Care Management Platform

by Bruce Brown | February 19, 2018 | General News, Medical

Patient follow-up systems after surgical discharge have an important positive impact on outcomes, but they can also add a heavy layer of administrative complexity and expense, according to The National Academy of Sciences. While attending Harvard Medical School and...

AI Interprets Radiology Reports with High Accuracy

by Bruce Brown | February 16, 2018 | General News, Medical

Artificial intelligence and big data score once again for health tech. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and Boston University’s Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics recently published a study in Radiology. The...

Telemedicine Accreditation Standards for Clinical Services and Delivery

by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2018 | General News, Medical

Telemedicine and mobile health offer great promises for remote care, resource efficiency, and cost controls. As with any new technology, many product and service providers will rush to the marketplace. A good number of the would-be telemedicine participants will fail...

Standard Wearables Detect Early Signs of Diabetes

by Kimberly Houston | February 15, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 100 million U.S. adults are living with diabetes or prediabetes (a condition that can lead to type 2 diabetes if not treated). Diabetes can often be managed through physical activity, diet, and...

Pulse Device Relieves Chronic Pain Without Drugs

by Bruce Brown | February 14, 2018 | General News, Health

The opioid crisis grew out of pharmaceutical solutions for chronic severe pain management, and it won’t recede until medicine, science, and the private sector create effective non-drug pain treatments. History shows any war on drugs focused solely on law...