by Bruce Brown | August 11, 2022 | Medical
Blood glucose monitoring has always been one of the most-watched technologies in digital health and smart wearables. In early 2017, Health Tech Insider first covered Paris-based PKVitality’s ongoing development of a new technology that uses microscopic probes to...
by Bruce Brown | October 25, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The value of digital health technology rises and falls on the quality of data that it produces. Inadequate biosensors, invalid measurement methods, faulty algorithms, and poor quality control can all render data useless. Medical applications require clinically...
by Kimberly Houston | February 8, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
There are an estimated 5 million upper limb amputees worldwide, many of them children. Prosthetic limbs can cost upwards of $40,000 or more, and children rapidly outgrow them. Because the cost of prosthetics is prohibitive, many children simply go without them. Now a...
by Bruce Brown | January 2, 2018 | General News, Medical
The worldwide diabetes epidemic shows no signs of slowing. Treating diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), a related medical issue for approximately 6% of older adults with diabetes, costs billions of dollars each year. DFU’s lead to amputation in one in 12 cases. Two...
by Bruce Brown | October 2, 2017 | General News, Medical
“We found dangerous cancer, and we need to operate immediately.” No one wants to hear those words. The fact that surgery can even be contemplated throws a faint light of hope. The next concern is whether the surgeons were able to find and remove all...