by Bruce Brown | October 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Communications is much more than just words. A classic UCLA study by (now) Professor Emeritus Albert Mehrabian argued only “7% of message relating to feelings and attitudes is in the words that are spoken.” The remaining 93% of the message is derived from...
by Bruce Brown | October 26, 2017 | General News, Medical
Patient survival rate increases with faster treatment following a myocardial infarction, more commonly known as a heart attack. We wrote previously about CathMaps+, a mobile app that can give directions to the closest hospital with a cardiac catheter lab and stores...
by Kimberly Houston | October 26, 2017 | General News, Health
According to a recent article published by the University of Leeds, 300,000 patients a year in England get hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), which leads to increased treatment costs and threats to patient safety. Hospital doors are one of the biggest culprits of...
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by Bruce Brown | October 25, 2017 | General News, Medical
We’ve written extensively about telemedicine. We’ve covered applications as diverse as using drones to deliver telemedicine capabilities to disaster locations and telemedicine for ships’ crew at sea. We covered a report on telemedicine’s...
by Kimberly Houston | October 25, 2017 | General News, Medical
It’s no surprise that technological advances have driven the growth of virtual care and nursing telemedicine (remote diagnosis and treatment of patients) in recent years. One area of healthcare where that’s been especially useful is wound care. The need for wound...
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by Bruce Brown | October 24, 2017 | General News, Health
We focus on wearable health tech for humans on Health Tech Insider, but health technology moves forward for livestock and pets as well. Waggit, a new multi-purpose wearable for dogs, is currently in Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. We’ve written about health...
