by Alfred Poor | May 4, 2015 | Medical
According to a report in the Financial Times (subscription required), Ford has given up on the development of a smart car seat that can detect a driver’s irregular heart rhythms. The idea is that the car could tell if the driver was incapacitated due to a heart...
by Alfred Poor | May 1, 2015 | Health, Medical
No man is an island, and if designed properly, few wearable Health Tech devices should live in isolation, either. Part of the benefit of these new devices comes from being able to aggregate data from many different sources for each individual, and then apply Big Data...
by Alfred Poor | April 29, 2015 | Health, Medical
One of the key features of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) is that it started requiring the use of electronic health records (EHR) as a way to cut costs and increase efficiency in healthcare. One of the side effects of this shift has been the...
by Alfred Poor | April 21, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
We often talk about how Health Tech data from a community of people has the potential to reveal valuable information about disease detection, diagnosis, and treatment, and how this sort of Big Data analytics could save money and lives. But there’s a potential...
by Alfred Poor | April 20, 2015 | Health, Medical
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects a patient’s ability to walk. Unfortunately, the only assessment of their impairment usually happens during an office visit with their physician. More detailed information about day to day experiences could provide healthcare...
