by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2020 | Enabling Tech
COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm our healthcare systems. In many cases, healthcare personnel cannot keep up with the influx of patients. Help may be on the way, however. A company has launched a new app that relies on telehealth to screen patients based on their...
by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2020 | Health
Sheltering at home appears to be an effective defense against COVID-19. However, the lockdown’s confinement and restricted contact with friends and family on top of the daily pall of virus-related news induce significant stress for many people. The increased...
by Alfred Poor | April 28, 2020 | Health, Medical
“COVID-19 changes everything.” The “new normal” that follows the lock-down caused by the virus crisis will look different in many ways from the recent past. Some changes will be for the worse, but some will be for the better. One particular...
by Amantha May | April 27, 2020 | General News, Medical
As healthcare practices rush to integrate telemedicine in response to COVID-19, it’s natural to question whether remote examinations can truly replicate an in-person visit. StethoMe, the Poland-based maker of a smart, wireless, stethoscope, is working with existing...
by Bruce Brown | April 24, 2020 | Health
When cities, states, and countries begin to re-open their respective economies, screening employees and customers for signs of COVID-19 will be critical. Many locations currently use non-contact digital thermometers that are held within a few inches of the forehead of...
by Bruce Brown | April 23, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Harvesting host energy to power biosensors is an efficient way to keep wearables and injectables running, at least in theory. We wrote about recent work at ETRI on a thermoelectric module that generates energy to power sensors from human body heat. In 2019 we covered...
