by Bruce Brown | August 22, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Early wristband fitness trackers were easy to differentiate from single-purpose health tech wearables that monitored just heart rate or blood pressure. Wearables packing multiple biosensors upped the game with advanced fitness wearables such as the Fitbit Charge HR...
by Alfred Poor | August 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
For many reasons, people fail to take their prescription drugs as instructed. Sometimes they forget. Sometimes they don’t want to (or can’t) spend the money to buy the medications. For whatever the reason, however, the estimates for the increased...
by Bruce Brown | August 13, 2018 | General News, Medical
A study conducted for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that while the number of overall hospital emergency department visits decreased 3% in 2015 compared to 2014, non-urgent visits increased by 4.3%. Crowded ER waiting rooms and long wait...
by Bruce Brown | August 7, 2018 | General News, Health
Suicides have increased across the United States in the first decades of the 21st century. Every state except for Nevada has seen increases, ranging from just under 6% in Delaware to more than 57% in North Dakota. In 25 states, suicide rates have risen more than 30%...
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by Bruce Brown | July 20, 2018 | General News, Health
Augmented reality (AR) is a natural fit for health and wellness technology. AR’s ability to add numeric data, text, graphics, images, and even video to a user’s field of vision has the potential for education, reference, engagement, and even fun. Most of...
