by Alfred Poor | December 11, 2014 | Enabling Tech
The market for wearable Health Tech devices is booming, but it still takes an enormous investment to bring a new product or service to market. The research centers at IMEC and the Holst Centre hope to make it easier to design new health and medical wearable devices...
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by Alfred Poor | November 17, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Technology is the great equalizer. Low-cost, mass-produced personal computers ushered in a revolution of data processing that made information management more efficient for everyone from large corporations to the average household. And in spite of the fact that...
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by Alfred Poor | October 7, 2014 | Health
This is about a new wearable device that is only marginally a Health Tech product. The Nymi from Bionym is a bracelet that monitors your heartbeat, which sounds like it might be intended to help you with fitness or health issues. Its mission is very different,...
by Alfred Poor | September 23, 2014 | Medical
Did you know that September is “National Atrial Fibrillation Week”? I didn’t. I also didn’t know that a study by the National Stroke Association found that half the people surveyed didn’t know the major symptoms of atrial fibrillation...
by Alfred Poor | September 12, 2014 | Health, Medical
Where’s the money in the wearables market? One more report points again to the health and medical segments. A new report from ABI Research predicts that about 100 million wearable remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices will ship over the next five years. The...
