by Bruce Brown | February 5, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Imagine you set out to build wearable health tech device to address a major health condition such as diabetes or glaucoma. Wouldn’t it be nice to incorporate the techie bits into an item small, light, discrete, and already worn by more than 125 million people...
by Bruce Brown | February 2, 2018 | General News, Health
The electronic health records (EHR) concept promises real-time data integration, accessibility, privacy, and security. Ideally, patients and their healthcare team members anywhere in the world can access comprehensive, accurate health records on multiple device...
by Bruce Brown | February 1, 2018 | General News, Health
Smartphones and tablets have been ripe platforms for app development for years. Smartwatches were late to the party — the first Apple Watch was launched in April 2015, less than three years ago — but they’re catching up fast. App developers must...
by Kimberly Houston | February 1, 2018 | General News, Medical
A hospital stay usually involves being attached to a host of medical devices. But how useful is all that data, really? The FDA recently approved a new method of analyzing data to reduce preventable hospital deaths, which are estimated to number 400,000 yearly in the...
by Bruce Brown | January 31, 2018 | General News, Medical
Business or seed accelerators weren’t even a thing until 2005. That was the year Y Combinator started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, followed by TechStars in 2007. The seed accelerator movement soon exploded worldwide. Accelerator programs typically last three...
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by Kimberly Houston | January 31, 2018 | General News, Health
Whether you’re an avid follower of the news or not, it’s nearly impossible to avoid hearing about the current opioid epidemic in the U.S. According to the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse, more than 90 Americans die each day after...
