by Alfred Poor | July 1, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Imagine a bandage that could tell healthcare workers at a glance what was going on underneath. Does a dressing need to be changed? Is there bacterial growth that indicates an infection? Is the temperature of the skin hotter or colder than normal, which could indicate...
![Detect Trace Biomarkers Quickly [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/04/Simoa-blood-protein.jpg?resize=600%2C244)
by Alfred Poor | April 17, 2015 | Medical
In a Forbes article, Kevin Hrusovsky, CEO of Quanterix is quoted making a distinction between “healthcare” and “sick care.” His point is that in most cases, we wait until a patient gets sick — showing symptoms — and then test to...
by Alfred Poor | April 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One of the hotbeds for research on wearable technology is the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. The Center has received more than $11 million in funding from the National...
by Alfred Poor | March 18, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Digital electronic wearable Health Tech devices need electricity to work their magic. This generally requires the use of batteries that have to be recharged or replaced periodically. But what if you could do away with the batteries (or come up with a way to keep them...
![Acid-Powered Rockets Explore the Stomach [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/02/Stomach-Micromotors.jpg?resize=599%2C297)
by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Medical
The photo may look like a pair of cooling towers for a nuclear power plant, but they’re not. What you see is a scanning microscope image of two tiny devices, each about one fifth the width of a human hair. Each one is actually a micromotor, and the video shows...
