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Wireless Sensors Power Rehab Progress [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 2, 2018 | General News, Medical

When a stroke victim goes through rehab, therapists monitor muscle activity, motion, vital signs, and more in order to track progress. One limiting factor is that the sensors require wires to carry their signals. This can be inconvenient in the clinical setting, but...

CDC App Helps Parents Track Baby Development

by Bruce Brown | November 14, 2017 | General News, Health

We frequently cite the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Health Tech Insider posts. The CDC’s long-established reputation as a source of valid and reliable statistics related to health conditions and diseases is respected worldwide. CDC...

Massively Parallel Interface Reconnects Brain [video]

by Alfred Poor | July 11, 2017 | General News, Medical

The human brain is an amazing thing, but when it doesn’t work when it gets disconnected from other parts of the body. If it can’t communicate with the eyes, a person goes blind. When it loses contact with the ears, the person goes deaf. And if the...

Ontario Backs Digital Health Innovation

by Alfred Poor | April 10, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical

At 415,000 square miles, the Canadian province of Ontario is larger than any of the United States except Alaska. Yet it has a population that is only a bit larger than that of Pennsylvania (at just 46,000 square miles). These two numbers alone make it clear that...

Low-Power Chip to Help Wearables Hear

by Alfred Poor | February 23, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News

If you’re a long-time reader of Health Tech Insider, you know that one of my favorite topics is the user interface for wearable Health Tech devices. While there’s no one solution, some approaches have clear limitations. For example, you can’t fit a...