by Alfred Poor | April 12, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you have limited mobility and need a powered wheelchair to get around, you face challenges when it comes time to shop for a new ride. Users typically have to get to a medical equipment showroom or rehab center, where they often face a limited test drive experience....
by Alfred Poor | February 6, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The eyes may be the windows on the soul, as the old saying goes, but it turns out that the voice may be an effective window on your physical body. Your spoken words may provide valuable data that can be used as a non-contact way to diagnose disease, even remotely over...
by Alfred Poor | January 25, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
Wearable devices now routinely track heart beats (though some do so with more accuracy than others), but one biometric measure remains elusive: blood pressure (BP). There are plenty of automated blood pressure cuffs on the market, including models that will...
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by Alfred Poor | January 18, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
Remote monitoring of patient health is one of the most effective ways to identify and deal with conditions before they turn into expensive and potentially life-threatening situations. One important key is to make systems easy to use and unobtrusive, so that patients...
by Alfred Poor | January 17, 2017 | General News, Health
This story touches on two major themes about Health Tech devices. It’s a story about devices that disappear into our daily lives. And it’s about one of the big take-aways from CES 2017; devices need to prove their accuracy in order to be successful. In...
