by Alfred Poor | April 29, 2015 | Health, Medical
One of the key features of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) is that it started requiring the use of electronic health records (EHR) as a way to cut costs and increase efficiency in healthcare. One of the side effects of this shift has been the...
by Alfred Poor | April 28, 2015 | Medical
When a San Francisco motorcycle rider left the hospital with his newly-broken finger strapped into an uncomfortable and “ugly” splint, he decided that he could do better. According to an article on 3D.com by Debra Thimmesch, Luke Iseman dusted off his...
by Alfred Poor | April 24, 2015 | Medical
Wearable Health Tech devices clearly hold the potential to lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes through early detection and more effective monitoring of treatment. However, there’s another area that could also yield enormous financial benefits from this...
by Alfred Poor | February 9, 2015 | Health, Medical
If you read Health Tech Insider often, you may be aware that we are huge fans of the potential for wearable and mobile Health Tech devices to make a positive impact on the cost and quality of healthcare. Now we’re getting enough data points to bring the point...
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...
