by Bruce Brown | January 2, 2019 | Medical
Most implanted cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators now use two-way wireless technology for routine monitoring and device adjustments. The implants also can send alerts if something goes wrong with the person’s heart or the device itself. We’ve written...
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by Bruce Brown | December 13, 2018 | Medical
What do you get when you cross virtual reality experiences and artificial intelligence (AI) analytics with individual biometrics, behavior, and interactions? You get Cross Reality (XR). We’ve seen VRPhysio’s virtual reality platform used to gamify physical...
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by Alfred Poor | September 7, 2018 | General News, Medical
Diabetes is a disease that prevents the body from regulating blood sugar. Many diabetics must take blood samples to check their glucose levels, and adjust their insulin doses accordingly. Finger sticks for blood testing can be inconvenient at best, as well as painful...
by Bruce Brown | August 17, 2018 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
The amount of data from global biomedical research is massive and growing fast. Big Data should probably be re-named “Bigger Data.” The National Center for Biotechnology Information reported recently that the increased data from genomics sequencing...
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by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2018 | General News, Health
The winter 2017-2018 flu season rages on, with millions of U.S. victims getting very sick with a malady that takes a long time to move on. Seasonal influenza, aka the flu, has a hospitalization rate of 51.4 per 100,000 people, higher than rate recorded at this stage...
