by Kimberly Houston | February 1, 2018 | General News, Medical
A hospital stay usually involves being attached to a host of medical devices. But how useful is all that data, really? The FDA recently approved a new method of analyzing data to reduce preventable hospital deaths, which are estimated to number 400,000 yearly in the...
by Kimberly Houston | January 24, 2018 | General News, Medical
With the advent of new technologies come new ways to deliver healthcare. Telehealth services have been around for some time, but the field continues to evolve with the rapid changes in technology, making remote care and monitoring of even serious health conditions...
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by Bruce Brown | December 27, 2017 | General News, Medical
Twente helps people get moving. The University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, is a public research school with degree programs in diverse fields focuses on engineering. We’ve written previously about Twente projects to assist movement and walking. We...
by Bruce Brown | November 30, 2017 | General News, Health
Wearable tech and digital software tools are well suited for objective measures. Measuring steps, electronic heart signatures, respiration, brainwaves, and, more recently, prescription drug compliance via ingestible sensors in medication are all binary reporting...
by Bruce Brown | November 29, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Opioid addiction and overdose death growth rates terrify the general populace, overwhelm medical and social service communities, alert law enforcement, challenge governments, and build pulpits for politicians. Finger pointing at pill-count-driven pharmaceutical...
