by Bruce Brown | April 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Implantable Health Tech devices such as defibrillators and pacemakers can be life savers, but come with their own technical issues. If we’re going to be implanting medical devices to regulate, control, assist, measure, and monitor vital body functions, fast and...
by Alfred Poor | December 31, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
Digital communications in the form of the Internet, cell phones, and wireless data access have transformed the way people communicate around the world. The impact is not just limited to interpersonal communications, however. 15 years ago, who would have guessed that...
by Alfred Poor | July 14, 2015 | Medical
Your health typically is what happens between office visits. No matter whether you see your physician once a year or once a week or even once a day, most of your time will be spent away from the doctor’s office. And it can be difficult to accurately document...
by Alfred Poor | June 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One of the reasons that wearable Health Tech devices have become so valuable is that they can take advantage of wireless data communications technology. Driven by demand for features in smartphones, tiny wireless transceivers have become inexpensive. Different...
by Alfred Poor | February 17, 2015 | Medical
Salesforce commissioned an online survey by Harris Poll last month, and has now released the results in their “2015 State of the Connected Patient” report. It provides a mix of encouraging and disappointing news, but little of it is surprising and the...