by Alfred Poor | July 10, 2015 | Health, Medical
Last month, Goldman Sachs published a report, “The Digital Revolution comes to US Healthcare.” A story in Business Insider provides some of the details from the report, including projections of more than $300 billion “in the near future.” This...
by Alfred Poor | April 15, 2015 | Fitness, Health
According to a recent article by Reuters, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control report that obesity costs U.S. employers more than $70 billion every year, due to absenteeism and healthcare expenses. This is money that could be better spent on higher salaries and more...
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by Alfred Poor | March 12, 2015 | Health
Researchers at UCLA have developed WearSens, a necklace that is designed to monitor your eating to help you achieve health goals. The device places a sensor above your sternum that can detect what and how much you eat and drink. Testing on 30 subjects found that it...
by Alfred Poor | February 27, 2015 | Health, Medical
Another day, another health survey showing that Americans are ready to embrace technology when it comes to their healthcare, including wearable Health Tech devices. This time, it is the fifth annual “Pulse of Online Health” survey by Makovsky Health and...
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by Alfred Poor | January 26, 2015 | Health
Not all wearable Health Tech devices need to have digital electronics. Case in point: the Quikiks shoes. Think about this for a moment. When people want to describe someone as being incredibly out of shape, they often say something like “He can’t even bend...
