by Bruce Brown | December 23, 2016 | General News, Health
The U.S. spends $3 trillion a year — about 17 percent of our total economic activity — on healthcare according to recent reports. Among nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the average is 9 percent, roughly half the U.S....
by Bruce Brown | December 22, 2016 | General News, Health
Senior citizens prefer to live in their own homes. According to a 2012 AARP survey, 90 percent of seniors plan to stay in their own homes for the next five to ten years and 85 percent are confident they can do so without making big changes to their homes. In the face...
by Bruce Brown | December 21, 2016 | General News, Health
A new class of wearable health tech for hearing loss is coming out from under the radar for 2017. The number of Americans with hearing loss is staggering. According to the Hearing Loss Association of America, 48 million — about 20 percent — report hearing...
by Bruce Brown | December 20, 2016 | General News, Health
In the United States as of figures from 2014, 9.3 percent of the population — 29.1 million people — have diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of that number, 21 million people are diagnosed and 8.1 million are...
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by Alfred Poor | December 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Medical imaging has made enormous improvements in recent decades. New digital technologies make it possible to amass huge amounts of data that give physicians the ability to peer inside living bodies. One of the happy benefits of this data is that it can be used to...
by Bruce Brown | December 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wireless technology is about to take another leap ahead and it will definitely serve the increasing needs for transferring data to and from Health Tech devices: further, faster, and in bigger chunks. At a time with Internet-enabled device numbers are increasing at...
