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...
by Alfred Poor | June 15, 2017 | General News, Health
Crowd-funding has helped many Health Tech devices raise development funds and build a market for new products. Some campaigns have extraordinary success. For example, consider the Hello from Sense. This sleep-tracking device ran a Kickstarter campaign three years ago...
by Alfred Poor | September 21, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
It may seem obvious, but you have to know your market when you’re designing a new product or service. This is especially true if you’re creating a consumer electronics device, or if you want to create something for the elderly to use. And if you’re...
by Alfred Poor | November 16, 2015 | General News, Medical
Patients who have lost kidney function to injury or disease must rely on dialysis machines to cleanse their blood of excess fluid, salts, and toxins. This typically requires that they sit, hooked up to a machine in a clinical setting, for 12 to 15 hours every...
by Alfred Poor | April 16, 2015 | Medical
A spin-off company from the University of Maryland is working to develop the world’s first wearable artificial lung. Breethe, Inc. has support from UM Ventures, which helps bring start-ups from the University of Maryland together with financial investors and...