by Bruce Brown | March 26, 2021 | Medical
At Health Tech Insider, we often cover biosensing devices such as continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), electronic health records (EHR), and remote patient managment (RPM). Rarely do we cover all three topics in the same post. The lockdowns associated with the COVID-19...
by Bruce Brown | February 18, 2021 | Medical
For several years experts have warned about security threats to personal health data. In 2018, ECRI Institute singled out cybersecurity as the most significant in its 2019 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report. Also in 2018, a group of studies and reports found that...
by Alfred Poor | March 14, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
Most articles about wearable tech focus on the health-related uses of biometric data. Measurements of body functions such as heart rate, temperature, and breathing rate can help identify disease and other conditions. But there’s another big problem facing...
by Bruce Brown | February 12, 2019 | Medical
Electronic health records (EHRs) promise improved patient care coordination among healthcare professionals. Long-touted benefits of EHRs include faster and more accurate diagnosis, more effective treatments, and lower healthcare costs. Pushback from physicians and...
by Bruce Brown | November 28, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The very early typing machine at the top of this article represented a significant advance for the written word. Without pushing the comparison too far, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a natural language processing service developed to transform...
