Alexa Answers Health Questions in the U.K.

by Bruce Brown | July 23, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Digital voice assistants already help with timely information in a variety of healthcare environments. Amazon’s Alexa helps ambulance attendants follow protocols in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Alexa assists GoodRx members looking for the best price for...

A Soft Wrap Treats Infant Jaundice [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 22, 2019 | Health

Approximately 60% of all babies have jaundice according to the CDC. Mild cases of jaundice in newborns go away in a few weeks, but higher levels of bilirubin, a substance that indicates jaundice severity, may require treatment. The most common treatment for newborn...

ClientBot Accelerates Talk Therapist Training

by Bruce Brown | July 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Mental health treatment plans can involve medication and other physical treatment options, but talk therapy remains a nearly universal component. In the 1960s, MIT AI Laboratory’s Joseph Weizenbaum wrote the ELIZA program to talk with patients as a reflective...

FDA-Cleared Human Milk Nutrition Analyzer [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 18, 2019 | Enabling Tech

When we wrote about technology and human breast milk previously, the focus was wearable breast pumps from Willow and Chiaro. We also wrote about JustMilk’s work developing a breastfeeding drug delivery system to use in remote regions where children may not...

Sensor Networks Create Smart Skin [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 17, 2019 | Enabling Tech

In 2015 we reported forecasts that smart clothing applications would rise rapidly by 2020 but the bulk of the applications would be fitness-oriented, not associated with healthcare. In 2018 Juniper Research predicted connected clothing would top 7 million units in...

Uber Uses Blockchain App for Patient Rides [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 16, 2019 | Medical

Patients who miss appointments with their primary care physicians may shrug it off as not that big a deal. According to a much-quoted 2017 report by SCI Solutions, however, the estimated aggregate annual cost of those blown appointments adds up to $150 billion. SCI...