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...
by Alfred Poor | February 20, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
In an insightful commentary, author Andy Oram published an article on EMR & EHR about the difficulties involved in securing personal data in the Internet of Things (IoT), especially when wearable Health Tech devices are involved. In the article, he cites a report...
by Alfred Poor | December 10, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical
Earlier this fall, Frost & Sullivan released an industry report entitled “Wearable Technology – Has the next enterprise game changer arrived?” The report provides familiar forecasts of rapid growth for the wearables market, but it goes deeper with its...
by Alfred Poor | December 3, 2014 | Health, Medical
An article in the Register reports that the Australian government has awarded a grant for a bit more than US $250,000 for a three-year study of ways to secure individual health data from fitness bands and other wearable devices. The potential benefits of such...
by Alfred Poor | November 3, 2014 | Medical
According to a report in Mobile Health News last month, Apple has a problem with patient-entered glucose readings in its Health app. Devices in the U.S. and some other countries measure blood glucose levels in “milligrams per deciliter” (mg/dL). In some...
