by Alfred Poor | May 15, 2019 | Medical
Telehealth services are changing how healthcare services are delivered in the U.S. and around the world. These can provide immediate interactive access for patients in under-served areas or who have mobility challenges. Video service provider Vidyo conducts an annual...
by Bruce Brown | April 12, 2019 | Medical
Physicians remain the primary influence on consumer medical decisions. As digital health tech wearables continue to progress from athletic fitness aids to personal biometric trackers and, most recently, to clinical-grade patient monitoring devices, doctors’...
by Bruce Brown | March 13, 2018 | General News, Medical
The opioid epidemic currently causes more than 40,000 deaths annually in the U.S. While the majority of abusers were not treated for chronic pain, according to the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than a third of the abusers received the drugs...
by Kimberly Houston | February 14, 2018 | General News, Health
We all know excess weight adversely affects our health. Obesity increases the risk for many serious diseases and conditions, including hypertension (high blood pressure), type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some cancers, to name just a few. But knowing that...
by Kimberly Houston | February 1, 2018 | General News, Medical
A hospital stay usually involves being attached to a host of medical devices. But how useful is all that data, really? The FDA recently approved a new method of analyzing data to reduce preventable hospital deaths, which are estimated to number 400,000 yearly in the...
