by Bruce Brown | May 15, 2019 | Medical
Telemedicine can bring medical specialty resources to primary care physician offices, improve access to medical care for people who live in remote or under-served areas, and enable post-discharge and rehab patient monitoring. Those are just a few of...
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by Bruce Brown | April 11, 2019 | Health
The world’s population is graying rapidly. According to the United Nations 2017 World Population Ageing report, in 2017 there were 962 million seniors 60 years or older, 137 million of whom were 80 or older. By 2050, the U.N. projects there will be almost 2.1...
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by Bruce Brown | November 9, 2018 | General News, Health
Many seniors live in dread of falls. If you fall and break your hip, as my Mother did as we were leaving a restaurant in early February a few years back, you might not get home for months. My Mom didn’t go home until the end of May. As we wrote in June this...
by Bruce Brown | October 23, 2018 | General News, Health
The CDC reported that in 2015 there were approximately 45 million adults aged 65 or older in the U.S.: about 14% of the population. That number is expected to grow to 80 million — or 20% of the population — by 2050. We’ve written about a variety of...
by Alfred Poor | October 8, 2018 | General News, Health
As the smartwatch market matures, it should not be a surprise that the products are starting to differentiate. Different feature sets will appeal to different market segments, and manufacturers hope to establish a niche for their products. One niche market for...
