by Bruce Brown | October 9, 2020 | Health
Amazon’s Alexa digital voice assistant currently converses with more than 384 million people worldwide, according to the Alexa device sitting on my desk when I asked just now. We’ve written about diverse Alexa implementations in health and wellness, from...
by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2020 | General News, Medical
Patient access to online healthcare information continues to grow, which turns out to be particularly helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic. Xealth recently surveyed almost 1,000 new and expectant mothers to gauge their digital health expectations and priorities. The...
by Bruce Brown | February 24, 2020 | Medical
If doctors aren’t willing to use new digital health and medical technologies, then the best engineering, design work, and clinical studies won’t make it far beyond the labs and publications. We wrote in 2015 about consumers accepting health data...
by Bruce Brown | February 4, 2019 | Health
Lower back pain is a common, chronic condition that shows no sign of abating. Desk workers hunched over computers and people who are overweight frequently develop aching backs. The condition often is accompanied by related comorbidity factors, the worst of which may...
by Alfred Poor | May 28, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
Medicine is one of the sciences, and science is based on facts and research. The Scientific Method is design to test hypotheses in a way that produces useful insights into the cause and effect of various conditions. (And it also produces more questions than answers in...