Cedars-Sinai Counts Post-Op Steps to Predict Discharge [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 20, 2019 | Medical

Companies that sell step counters often recommend 10,000 steps a day as a fitness goal. The medical community doesn’t fall totally, um, in step with a fixed goal for everyone, but even the Mayo Clinic uses 10,000 steps as a reference point when urging people to...

CMR Headset Assists Low Vision Patients [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 19, 2019 | Medical

Wearable health tech isn’t new. If anyone asks who in their right mind would consent to wear techy gadgets voluntarily, the safest answer would be: “Probably you.” Approximately 78% of U.S. adults (194 million of an adult population of 248 million)...

Report Predicts 10-Fold Increase in Healthcare AI

by Bruce Brown | February 18, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Medical

The benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) on global healthcare far surpass those of any conceivable sensor or individual wearable tech. AI’s influence stems from its accuracy, speed, and relatively low cost. Machine learning and neural networking by...

Expanding Pill Carries Intriguing Payload [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Wearable sensors are typically worn on the wrist, but we’ve written about sensors pinned to clothing, carried in a pocket, woven into garments, and even ingested. For example, in 2017 we wrote about Abilify MyCite, the first FDA cleared ingestible sensor. That...

Interwoven Garment with 12-Lead ECG and More [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 14, 2019 | Health

Wearable with ECGs take home health monitoring further than most consumers would have deemed likely so soon after the heath tech began to emerge from fitness trackers. We’ve written about Cambridge Heartwear’s Heartsense 3-lead ECG device. We also covered...

Reinforcement Learning Tunes Prosthetics in Minutes

by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Prosthetics enable mobility and independence but fitting the apparatus and helping recipients learn to use an artificial arm or leg can be obstacles in the way of success. Powered prosthetic legs, for example, typically require “tuning” by trained clinical...