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...
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by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2017 | General News, Health
Modern medicine works miracles. Diseases that used to kill thousands and thousands of people every year have all but disappeared from the planet. Other diseases that used to be a certain death sentence now can be cured, or at least their progress can be slowed. Cancer...
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by Alfred Poor | January 30, 2017 | General News, Medical
Mobile health and telemedicine are important pieces of the puzzle to lower healthcare costs, improve outcomes, and increase the quality of life for millions of people. To gain these benefits, we need devices to get smaller, smarter, and less expensive. And...
by Alfred Poor | January 17, 2017 | General News, Health
This story touches on two major themes about Health Tech devices. It’s a story about devices that disappear into our daily lives. And it’s about one of the big take-aways from CES 2017; devices need to prove their accuracy in order to be successful. In...
by Alfred Poor | January 2, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
Happy New Year! Last year was a big year for wearable Health Tech and related digital health products and services, and I expect that the pace of growth will be even faster in 2017. The entire wearable industry is the product of the synergy created by the development...
