by Bruce Brown | April 8, 2021 | Health
“You need to exercise more and eat healthier food.” It’s pretty easy for family and friends, colleagues at work, and medical professionals to give that advice. For the recipient, however, the message can be a slow one-two punch. The first blow...
by Bruce Brown | March 16, 2021 | Health
Nearly every day brings new announcements or reports of studies about remote patient management (RPM). The COVID-19 pandemic boosted the pace of RPM adoption, but the requisite technologies were already in place. According to a recent survey by VivaLNK, RPM will be...
by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2021 | Health, Medical
We don’t need to reiterate the U.S. and global statistics on obesity, overweight, and diabetes. The numbers are huge, scary, and in a good year, they hold at current levels. We’ve written many times about devices and programs to detect and manage Type 2...
by Bruce Brown | February 10, 2021 | Medical
In the CDC’s 2020 National Diabetes Statistics Report, the national health protection agency states that 34.2 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. That number represents 10.5% of the U.S. population, including 26.9 million diagnosed people and 7.3 million...
by Bruce Brown | November 12, 2020 | Health
Score another win for digital therapeutics. We’ve written about FDA approval for prescribed digital therapeutics, a Consumer Technology Association (CTA) initiative to develop a set of standards for digital therapeutics, and the pandemic’s influence in...