by Bruce Brown | December 15, 2017 | General News, Medical
Connected healthcare just edged onto a new tech platform: the first health-related voice assistant apps. Amazon’s Echo family of devices offers a rapidly-growing range of task-specific voice apps for its “Alexa” assistant, which are called...
by Bruce Brown | December 14, 2017 | General News, Medical
Telemedicine’s new-kid-on-the-block status as a healthcare service delivery mode sounds like a perfect solution for a rapidly growing number of diseases, health conditions, and patient circumstances. Without broad stakeholder acknowledgment, support, and...
by Kimberly Houston | December 14, 2017 | General News, Health
When smartphones started omitting the standard 3.5mm headphone jack, there was a bit of an uproar among those who didn’t love the idea of buying a separate adapter to listen to music, podcasts, or other audio with their headphones. Blog posts and online forums filled...
by Bruce Brown | December 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
Health tech devices and software aren’t developing in a vacuum. Big data analytics and artificial intelligence including machine learning significantly boost the potential healthcare improvement with sensor-based technology. Voice analysis of huge sample sets,...
by Kimberly Houston | December 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, neuropsychiatric disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. Neuropsychiatric conditions include OCD, anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders like bipolar disorder,...
by Bruce Brown | December 12, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you haven’t already had laser eye surgery, odds are pretty good you will at some time in the future. A Korean-U.S.academic collaboration recently announced new technology that has the potential to improve laser surgery precision significantly. We’ve...
