Wireless Monitor System for Ebola Receives Grant

by Alfred Poor | February 17, 2015 | Medical

The non-profit healthcare Scripps Health will lead a consortium of four companies to develop a turnkey system to wirelessly monitor possible Ebola patients, providing full-time acquisition and analysis of vital biometric measures. Sotera Wireless develops wireless...

New Survey Shows Growing Support for Health Tech

by Alfred Poor | February 17, 2015 | Medical

Salesforce commissioned an online survey by Harris Poll last month, and has now released the results in their “2015 State of the Connected Patient” report. It provides a mix of encouraging and disappointing news, but little of it is surprising and the...

Did Apple’s Tim Cook Overreach about Sitting?

by Alfred Poor | February 16, 2015 | Health

Last week, Tim Cook of Apple stated that “a lot of doctors think that sitting is the new cancer.” He made this point in an effort to drum up demand for the (as of yet not shipping) Apple Watch, and his hyperbolic comment has drawn a lot of criticism in the...

Woven Light for Newborns

by Alfred Poor | February 16, 2015 | Medical

  Some infants are born with jaundice, which is a condition when the compound bilirubin build up in the blood stream due to the breakdown of blood cells. This gives the skin a characteristic yellow tinge. The most common treatment is blue light that causes the...

Bike Light Projects Your Presence [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 13, 2015 | Fitness, Health

The Blaze Laserlight is not strictly a wearable, though I suppose you could strap it onto your bike helmet instead of your handlebars if you wanted. And it’s not really a Health Tech device, except in the preventative sense; it is designed to help cyclists avoid...

Wireless Platform for Health Tech Data [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 13, 2015 | Health, Medical

As we have mentioned here repeatedly, one of the big challenges in wearable Health Tech is to get the data from all these different sources uploaded and processed in a form that makes it easier for healthcare professionals and consumers to manage the information, and...