by Bruce Brown | February 28, 2020 | Medical
Heart failure patients who are hospitalized then discharged are readmitted to the hospital at alarmingly high rates. According to the CDC, 17.3% of such patients are readmitted within 30 days. A study by the University of Utah Health reports 30% of discharged heart...
by Bruce Brown | February 24, 2020 | Medical
If doctors aren’t willing to use new digital health and medical technologies, then the best engineering, design work, and clinical studies won’t make it far beyond the labs and publications. We wrote in 2015 about consumers accepting health data...
by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2020 | Medical
Remote monitoring technology companies and medical data analytics firms are partnering to improve chronic care management. We’ve written about collaborations for wearable data clinical trials, regional telemedicine, precision medicine endeavors, and much more....
by Bruce Brown | February 10, 2020 | Medical
In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need to know about colonoscopies, let alone endure them. Periodic colonoscopies are a necessary component of preventative health care, however, so any technology that results in more effective exams is a win. Enter artificial...
by Bruce Brown | January 15, 2020 | Medical
Studies continue to pile up that show artificial intelligence can wield diagnostic prowess along with potential use in treatment planning and patient compliance monitoring. So far, however, AI’s net benefits for patients, clinicians, and health care institutions...