Hi-Tech Wrap Speeds Healing [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 30, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

Until I heard about VIVY, I had not heard the term “diathermy” and I had to look it up. It turns out that this is a technology that can produce heat deep within muscle tissue. The heat causes increased blood flow, which in turn speeds healing by delivering...

Mobility By the Seat of Your Pants [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2016 | General News, Health

  Powered mobility devices can mean the difference between isolation and participation for many of the 17.1 million of adult Americans (7.1 percent of the population) who find it very difficult if not impossible to walk a quarter-mile, according to the Centers...

Twitter Adds Smartphone Image Accessibility for the Blind

by Bruce Brown | March 28, 2016 | General News, Health

  Love it or hate it, social media has changed the way many people communicate for work, learning, and pleasure. Twitter, which launched in 2006, was one of the first social media applications to attain broad recognition beyond special populations such as college...

Wearables Give New Hope for “Orphan” Diseases [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 25, 2016 | General News, Health

As the market for Health Tech wearables and mobile apps moves out of infancy, the majority of products focus on broad metabolic measures such as heart rate, blood sugar, and blood pressure. Applications designed to monitor specific diseases or medical conditions in...

Mobile App Lets Doctors Spend More Time With Patients, Less on Paperwork [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 24, 2016 | General News, Medical

It’s widely accepted that the cost of healthcare continues to rise , but have you given thought to why that’s happening? There are many contributing factors, but one perhaps not so apparent outside the medical community is paperwork. Physicians and other...

Clinical Grade Smartphone Medical Diagnostic Aids [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 23, 2016 | General News, Medical

There are tons of reasons for remote medical diagnostics, and they’re not limited the difficulties of providing care in developing countries. While the need for care in developing areas is often acute, in other parts of the world remote diagnostics can be a...