by Alfred Poor | October 4, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
One of the big advances in modern medicine is the electronic health record (EHR). If we could tap their full potential, they will make it easier for patients to track their own health (through patient portals) and give healthcare professionals quick access to a...
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by Kimberly Houston | November 14, 2017 | General News, Medical
An important care issue in nursing homes and senior living centers is appropriate and timely wound care, specifically the treatment of pressure ulcers, sometimes called pressure sores. Pressure ulcers are areas of damaged skin caused by staying in one position for too...
by Bruce Brown | October 30, 2017 | General News, Medical
“If you build it, they will come.” That strategy worked for Kevin Costner’s Field of Dreams character Ray, a farmer who attracted ghosts of baseball greats to a ball diamond he constructed in an Iowa cornfield. If you have an idea for a nifty mHealth...
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by Alfred Poor | April 26, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
Google Glass is dead, right? Then how come Augmedix just announced $17 million in new investment from five leading healthcare systems across the U.S.? The fact is that augmented reality (AR) is finding a home at the enterprise level, and one particularly successful...
by Alfred Poor | September 23, 2014 | Health, Medical
A new survey by online health site WebMD and its Medscape program for healthcare professionals find that doctors and patients are largely in agreement over the use of Health Tech devices. Now, the doctors surveyed were all part of the Medscape system, and all the...
