by Alfred Poor | May 26, 2015 | Health
There’s a saying in software development that the smallest code changes are often the most expensive; a little change can have unintended consequences elsewhere. It appears that Apple may have provided another demonstration of this lesson with its first upgrade...
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by Alfred Poor | May 14, 2015 | Medical
According to the MediSafe website, more than 700,000 people ended up in the hospital in 2008, simply because they failed to take their medications as directed. Adherence to treatment has a major impact on the outcome. Whether the patient is elderly or just plain busy,...
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by Alfred Poor | May 8, 2015 | Health, Medical
One of the big advantages of technology is that it can make everyday devices “smarter.” In general, this means that the devices can generate information that is more useful than the traditional unconnected designs. A good example of this is the...
by Alfred Poor | May 6, 2015 | Health
One of the clever features of the new Apple Watch is that it can monitor your heart rate. The back of the watch housing contains green and infrared LEDs, paired with light sensors. The infrared lights are used to measure your heart rate every 10 minutes, and if that...
by Alfred Poor | April 13, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Some wearable HealthTech devices simply record data and wirelessly transmit it to some other device for processing, analysis, and reporting. The person wearing the device has little need to interact directly with it, relying instead on the user interface of some other...
