by Alfred Poor | April 27, 2015 | Health, Medical
One of the recurring themes about the potential benefits of wearable Health Tech devices and the “quantified self” is the concerns that people have about privacy and sharing their personal health data. In a study last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers found...
by Alfred Poor | April 27, 2015 | Health, Medical
The practice of healthcare in the U.S. has resulted in patients spending less time speaking with their physicians and other professionals. According to a presentation by Nick van Terheyden, Chief Medical Information Officer with Nuance, about three quarters of...
by Alfred Poor | April 24, 2015 | Medical
Wearable Health Tech devices clearly hold the potential to lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes through early detection and more effective monitoring of treatment. However, there’s another area that could also yield enormous financial benefits from this...
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by Alfred Poor | April 24, 2015 | Fitness
While Google takes a low-key approach to the continued development of Google Glass, there are still lots of other head-mounted computer systems. One example is the Jet available from Recon. Marketed for fitness applications, the device is a full-featured computer...
by Alfred Poor | April 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech
It is reasonable to claim that the electronics revolution began in 1947 with the discovery of the solid state transistor by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley at Bell Labs. This led to portable electronics, the integrated circuit, and eventually computer chips. These...
by Alfred Poor | April 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech
If you need diagnostic work done these days, you typically have to provide some blood or other sample that gets shipped off to a lab somewhere. Then you wait for the results to come back. Wouldn’t it be great if you could find out the answers right away?...
