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How Can Wearable Gadgets Like the Smartwatch Help Heart Patients?
The following is a guest blog post by Kelly Everson. Wearable tech and its purpose Wearable tech is no more a thing of future times; it’s here, and it can help many people regarding health issues. Go...
View ArticleTracking Health Goals Video
Today I came across this really great video of Dr. Molly Maloof talking about her experience tracking her health. It’s interesting to have a doctor tracking herself. She takes a different approach than...
View ArticleAn Example of Future Implantables to Monitor Your Health
It’s only a centimetre long, it’s placed under your skin, it’s powered by a patch on the surface of your skin and it communicates with your mobile phone. The new biosensor chip developed at EPFL is...
View ArticleFuture Google Medical Tracking Watch
I don’t know how I missed the news that Google is making a medical watch focused on tracking your health. Here’s an excerpt from The Verge article: The wristband is being developed by Google X, the...
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Fitbit for the Brain
The above wearable currently is pretty awkward. It reminds me of a wrestler or possibly one of those old swim caps. However, it’s a really interesting part of the evolution in wearables. The Barcelona...
View ArticleAirstrip’s Apple Watch Implementation of Sense4Baby
Everyone in healthcare has been watching the Apple Watch and Apple just announced the next generation of their watch. As part of the Apple Watch announcement, Dr. Cameron Powell, CMO and Co-Founder of...
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The Medical Smartphone
The medicalized smartphone is coming along ✔=done; the rest are in progress #PWSYN pic.twitter.com/emQ3A896s8 — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 13, 2015 Eric Topol is so right. We’re making huge...
View ArticleFitbit Lawsuit and Lumosity Settlement Shine Important Light on Making Health...
2 big announcements came out around CES that shined a light on all the pomp and circumstance that you hear at a show like CES and the Digital Health Summit. The first was Lumosity’s $2 million in...
View ArticleConsumer Health Devices versus Medical Devices
I think there’s a major confusion in the current health app and device marketplace right now. The problem stems from consumers who draw conclusions even though claims aren’t really being made. I’ll use...
View ArticleThe Fitness Wearable Nobody Knows About
I ran across a great article from Techcrunch that looked at the top 3 wearable vendors and they pointed out that most of us have probably never heard of the #3 wearable on that list. For those...
View ArticleHIMSS 2016 Moved from Mobility to Devices
Thinking back on a week at the HIMSS Annual Conference, I think it’s fair to say that the industry has moved beyond the smart phone and moved on to new devices. That’s not to say that mobile doesn’t...
View ArticleNo Doubt Digital Health Has Gone Mainstream
The big digital health news yesterday was that Nokia was acquiring Withings. There’s no better sign of the massive market opportunity that is the digital health space. It also seems to show a huge...
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Will We Be Sequencing Genomes at Home?
When I look at the digital health market, I see amazing things happening with wearable technology and digital health apps. I’m even enamored by how much impact the right text message at the right time...
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The $5 Billion Eye and Gesture Tracking Sensor Market
Report: Eye and gesture tracking sensors are a $5B market https://t.co/vO7EHJ4xHU #mHealth #EHR pic.twitter.com/grnFWKllId — Medlium (@Medlium) August 2, 2016 $5 Billion is a huge number for the eye...
View ArticleThe Speed of Innovation in Mobile Networks – Enabling The Future of Healthcare
I’ve been attending the CTIA Super Mobility Conference in Las Vegas today and it’s been eye opening to say the least. The efforts they’re making to make wireless networks work for the IOT (internet of...
View ArticleWhat If We Looked at the Smartphone Camera as a “Sensor” Instead of a...
Benedict Evans is one of the smartest people I’ve read on treads happening in the technology industry. It’s been fascinating to read his perspectives on the shift to mobile and how mobile adoption has...
View ArticleThe Expanding World of Health Sensors
It’s been fascinating to watch the number of health sensors blow up over the years. The sad part of the last 3-5 years has been that a huge majority of the sensors that were hitting the market were...
View ArticleScanadu to Shut Down Scout Medical Device Per FDA Regulation
The famous Qualcomm Tricorder prize winner and IndieGogo crowdfunding success, Scanadu, has just hit some major bumps in the road. In fact, you might say they lost their engine completely. After...
View ArticleHealthcare Is Going to Benefit from the Confluence of Consumer Technologies
Next week is the annual CES conference in Las Vegas. It’s a unique event that brings together 170,000 people across 4 of the largest conference venues in the world. It’s enormous and a little hard to...
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Is the New Clinic, Forward, Only Reasonable for the Silicon Valley Elite?
A new clinic has been opened in San Francisco called Forward which is an attempt to reinvent the doctor’s office by several dozen former employees of Google, Facebook, Uber, and Palantir. On the one...
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