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by Alfred Poor | October 1, 2019 | General News, Health
Digital assistants are rapidly finding ways to become indispensable parts of our daily lives. We have apps like Siri on smartphones to answer our questions, and powered speakers like the Amazon Echo stand ready to deliver the latest news and weather, play our favorite...
by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Wearable tech with sensors that monitor and report biometric data can help assess your current health, but devices with algorithms that detect life-threatening conditions could potentially save your life. The iBeat smartwatch app monitors heart activity to alert to...
by Bruce Brown | June 10, 2019 | Health
Conversation can be a powerful tool in a healthcare professional’s kit. We’ve all had nurses and physicians ask us to tell them what’s wrong, describe out symptoms, assign a number to our pain level, and answer whether it hurts when they “do...
by Bruce Brown | December 24, 2018 | Medical
The hospital “emergency room” may no longer exist, ceding its place in modern medical care to emergency departments (ED) that handle an increasing volume of visitors. In 2015 there were 136.9 million emergency department visits, 9% of which, or 12.3...
by Bruce Brown | December 5, 2018 | General News, Health
Worldwide wearable sales are ramping up dramatically and smartwatches get most of the credit, according to recent reports on the wearables market by IDC and Gartner. We referenced the same trend noted in an IDC report earlier this year when the market analysis firm...
