by Alfred Poor | July 3, 2015 | Health
The British company Aseptika has announced a new version of their Activ8rlives app that now supports Apple’s HealthKit. The “Health Monitoring and Food Diary” program version 3.2 collects user data that can be stored on the Activ8rlives web servers...
by Alfred Poor | April 29, 2015 | Health, Medical
One of the key features of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) is that it started requiring the use of electronic health records (EHR) as a way to cut costs and increase efficiency in healthcare. One of the side effects of this shift has been the...
by Alfred Poor | March 23, 2015 | Health, Medical
When healthcare professionals can track a patient’s vital signs and biometric data outside of a hospital or other clinical setting, outcomes are improved and costs are lower. Honeywell Life Care Solutions has just released the latest version of their Genesis...
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by Alfred Poor | March 12, 2015 | Health
Researchers at UCLA have developed WearSens, a necklace that is designed to monitor your eating to help you achieve health goals. The device places a sensor above your sternum that can detect what and how much you eat and drink. Testing on 30 subjects found that it...
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by Alfred Poor | January 20, 2015 | Health, Medical
Countries around the world face a growing elderly population. Once of the challenges is to keep healthcare costs down for this group, while also affording them the opportunity to live as independently as they choose. Providing security and health monitoring for...
