by Alfred Poor | April 19, 2017 | General News, Health
We have often shared our view that Health Tech wearables won’t take off in a major way until they produce a clear return on investment. This won’t come about from fitness enthusiasts buying devices in ones and twos. It will be driven by the entities that...
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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 | April 10, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
At 415,000 square miles, the Canadian province of Ontario is larger than any of the United States except Alaska. Yet it has a population that is only a bit larger than that of Pennsylvania (at just 46,000 square miles). These two numbers alone make it clear that...
by Alfred Poor | April 5, 2017 | General News, Health
The statistics about seniors and falling are sobering. One in four older adults fall each year in the U.S., but half do not seek medical care. Still, every 11 seconds another senior arrives at an emergency room for treatment of injuries sustained in a fall. Every 19...
by Alfred Poor | March 30, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
“The Quantified Self” holds great promise for healthcare, as we replace once-a-year checkups with a rich data set of biometric information collected around the clock, all year long. The question is whether or not healthcare professionals perceive...
