by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2018 | General News, Medical
Text messaging, or texting, started with a “Merry Christmas” message sent to employees in 1992 by a Vodafone engineer, according to Mashable. After initial explosive growth, texting began to decline in 2009 and hit its nadir in 2012, BigFish PR wrote in...
by Alfred Poor | June 16, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
So you have a great idea for a new wearable Health Tech device that is going to save lives around the world; what next? Your idea won’t help anyone if you don’t bring it to market, and the longer you wait, the more investor cash you burn before the...
by Bruce Brown | May 15, 2017 | General News, Medical
Cardiac patients in 10 European countries now have greater freedom and mobility thanks to the recent CE approval of Abbott’s Confirm Rx ICM insertable cardiac monitor. Previously patients who were discharged from the hospital but required remote monitoring were...
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by Alfred Poor | April 17, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
It sounds tempting: a watch that can monitor and record multiple biometric and environmental measures including electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, skin electrical activity, and motion. It runs for up to a week on a single charge. It stores enough data for a week or...
by Alfred Poor | January 22, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Wireless wearable sensors are going to transform the world of health and medicine by delivering useful data about our bodies to intelligent systems that will watch out for early signs of problems. And that future has become a lot closer, thanks to a new system by...
