by Alfred Poor | October 27, 2016 | General News, Medical
Telemedicine has the potential to save lives and improve outcomes while driving down overall healthcare costs. One possible avenue to these gains is to avoid expensive and time-consuming office or hospital visits by sending healthcare workers to the homes of patients...
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by Alfred Poor | November 30, 2015 | General News, Medical
When a patient is in a hospital, the nursing staff and other healthcare professionals monitor their vital signs for indications of changes in their health. Patients in Intensive Care settings get around-the-clock monitoring, but for the average patient, vital signs...
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by Alfred Poor | September 14, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One of the problems with wearable Health Tech devices is that they tend to be small. In fact, the smaller they are, the better because they are more likely to “disappear” into the wearer’s daily life. But as we’ve discussed before, this does...
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by riddhi | August 26, 2015 | Medical
Wearables seem to have found their niche in healthcare sector. There are a number of companies working to develop wearables that can help make patient care timely, effective and accessible anywhere and anytime. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is one such...
by Alfred Poor | July 29, 2015 | Enabling Tech
When it comes to designing wearable Health Tech devices, small is beautiful. In order to make wearables that “disappear” into our lives, everything needs to be made smaller, lighter, thinner, and last longer without recharging. (It’s best if they...
