by Bruce Brown | April 17, 2017 | General News, Medical
Avoidable hospital readmissions threaten healthcare quality. Unlike most businesses, hospitals don’t like to see customers return for more service. Medicare fines hospitals when readmission rates exceed specified levels, to make sure that hospitals have...
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by Alfred Poor | April 4, 2017 | General News, Medical
Epilepsy is a neurological disease that affects more than 50 million people worldwide. The seizures that accompany this condition can diminish a patient’s quality of life, and even put themselves and others around them at risk. According to some sources, the...
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by Alfred Poor | February 15, 2017 | General News, Medical
A standard ECG produces a series of line graphs that healthcare professionals can “read” to diagnose irregular heart rhythms. In some cases, however, this data is not detailed enough to document the actual sequence of events involved in an abnormal...
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by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Digital wearable Health Tech devices require power, and this usually takes the form of electricity. Some devices can harvest the energy that they need from their surroundings, using heat, motion, light, or even radio frequency (RF) waves, but most devices use some...
by Alfred Poor | February 2, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
Fitness bands are on the decline; Health Tech devices are on the rise. That’s the conclusion of a new industry report by Juniper Research. Within the next five years, the combined market for such devices is expected to reach more than $21 billion in annual...
