![Apple Launches Platform for Personal Health Apps [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/05/Apple-CareKit-with-video-600x273.jpg?resize=600%2C273)
by Bruce Brown | April 29, 2016 | General News, Health
Apple has taken a big step with two healthcare developmental platforms. The first platform, ResearchKit, has been used by doctors and researchers to create smartphone apps to gather data to better understand health and disease processes. Now they’re launching...
![Apps to Measure Cognition, Memory, and Mental Health [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/03/CANTAB-with-video-600x275.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Bruce Brown | March 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
When I went for my annual physical just last month, a nurse gave me a memory test that included answering questions like the day of the week, the season, and the town we were in, copying a simple geometric shape, and recalling a short string of words. Perhaps for next...
![Scientists Create “Bionic Spine” Implant [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/02/Stentrode-bionic-spine.jpg?resize=600%2C274)
by Alfred Poor | February 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
One of the most tragic injuries is damage to the spinal cord; the result can be paralysis that leaves the victim trapped forever in a body that will not respond to commands to make it move. When the connection between the brain and body is broken, it is nearly...
![Family-Developed Night Time Seizure Detector [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/02/PulseGuard.jpg?resize=598%2C275)
by Bruce Brown | February 2, 2016 | General News, Health
Managing epilepsy can be challenging, particularly at night when seizures that lack movement and sound are not detected by usual monitoring devices. Especially when one is a caregiver for a child with epilepsy, the very real concern about Sudden Unepected Death from...
by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2016 | General News, Health
Health Tech is one of the leading areas of Internet of Things development. Most of the research takes place in private research and development labs, universities, or groups made up of both schools and commercial companies. Typically anyone not actively involved in...
