by Alfred Poor | January 19, 2017 | General News, Health
We’ve covered products from Thync in the past; the company’s first product was a Borg-like device that you would stick to your forehead, and then electrodes would connect behind your ear or some other spot. Originally, the goal was transcranial direct...
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...
by Alfred Poor | February 2, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Startups are lean, nimble, and innovative. Large established organizations tend to be slow to change and the process of making a decision can take a painfully long time to work its way through all the required channels. As a result, it is newsworthy that the American...
by Alfred Poor | November 11, 2014 | Health
For many reasons, it is important to help elderly individuals maintain as much mobility and independence as they can reasonably handle, in spite of physical and cognitive limitations. But as mentioned here recently (see “Are Health Tech Devices Designed for the...
by Alfred Poor | October 10, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical
Last April, President Obama’s administration issued the FDASIA Health IT Report, in which it made recommendations to Congress about how the FDA should regulate various types of Health Tech devices. Now, a group of 58 technology and health companies and...
