by Bruce Brown | August 28, 2017 | General News, Medical
Rampant prescription drug abuse threatens health care. Stories about opioid abuse, addiction, and overdoses fill news reports. Misuse of prescription medication isn’t new. Patience compliance with all forms of care, treatment, and medication counts among the...
by Bruce Brown | August 14, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Computers and smartphones equipped with fingerprint readers are commonplace. Facial and voice recognition are old hat. Functional iris scanners on new phones lie just around the corner. Biometric security technology using fingerprints, faces, voice, and iris...
by Alfred Poor | May 31, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
The BeeGee’s must have been peering into the future when they came up with their disco hit, “Staying Alive”: “Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk….” Walking is no longer just about getting from one place to another; it is...
by Bruce Brown | April 17, 2017 | General News, Medical
Avoidable hospital readmissions threaten healthcare quality. Unlike most businesses, hospitals don’t like to see customers return for more service. Medicare fines hospitals when readmission rates exceed specified levels, to make sure that hospitals have...
by Alfred Poor | January 20, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
What does finding pipes hidden in the walls of your home have to do with Health Tech? As we learned at CES 2016, the two are closely related. A company named Vayyar has created a 3D scanning system that relies on radio frequency (RF) emissions to see through walls and...
