by Alfred Poor | February 27, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Health
Healthcare resources are being stretched further and further, leaving holes in care that require novel approaches to address. Tasks that were performed by people in the past are now being handled by machines, and perhaps the most novel machines of all are the robots....
by Bruce Brown | February 26, 2020 | Medical
Teva Phamaceutical’s Teva Respiratory, LLC scored again this week with its DigiHaler digital inhaler. We wrote about the ProAir Digihaler last fall when the FDA cleared the albuterol sulfate inhaler for use in patients 4 years of age and older to treat or...
by Alfred Poor | February 26, 2020 | Health
Obesity is a problem, not just for individuals but for employers and health insurance companies. It can be a precursor to serious health conditions such as Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. According to a report from the Harvard School of Public Health,...
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by Bruce Brown | February 25, 2020 | Medical
Remote patient treatment monitoring (RTM) can be an effective alternative to monthly clinic check-ins to assess patient status. Researchers from Fresenius Medical Care recently published a study in Kidney 360 that measured treatment outcome success with 6,343...
by Bruce Brown | February 24, 2020 | Medical
If doctors aren’t willing to use new digital health and medical technologies, then the best engineering, design work, and clinical studies won’t make it far beyond the labs and publications. We wrote in 2015 about consumers accepting health data...
by Alfred Poor | February 21, 2020 | Medical
Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the body fails to properly regulate blood sugar levels. Treatment often involves finger pricks to measure glucose levels, followed by insulin injections to maintain the desired range. This approach has many inconvenient,...
