by Alfred Poor | August 1, 2016 | General News, Health
It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you wake up with a brilliant idea for a new product that will help millions of people. When the cold light of dawn comes, you stop and consider how you’ll navigate the maze of government rules and regulations in...
by Alfred Poor | April 12, 2016 | General News, Medical
One of the fundamental precepts of the U.S. legal system is “Ignorantia juris non excusat,” which means that ignorance of the law is no excuse. This can pose a significant challenge for someone who wants to produce a new product or service, because...
by Alfred Poor | February 23, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health
The Quantified Self: it’s a major goal of the wearable Health Tech industry. If we knew more about the bodies of more individuals and their health outcomes, we could detect disease sooner, discover which treatments are truly most effective, lower healthcare...
by Alfred Poor | February 19, 2016 | General News, Health
We first covered the Pip a little over a year ago. The little pointed puck is designed to measure “electrodermal activity” as a measure of the subject’s stress level, and a suite of smartphone apps provide exercises and games to help you relax. In...
by Alfred Poor | February 5, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the great promises of wearable Health Tech devices and the “quantified person” is that we will be able to collect massive amounts of data about individuals and communities that will allow us to extract correlations that will help healthcare...