In a piece published in Fortune, ex-Apple CEO John Sculley detailed the trends that he sees as shaping the future of healthcare technology and which companies are best positioned to take advantage of them.
Xerox‘s latest contribution to the world of healthcare could give doctors and patients an easier way to detect and monitor the most common type of arrhythmia using a basic webcam. The technology company built software algorithms that analyze the skin on the face for subtle color changes that could indicate irregular blood flow caused by […]
Here’s another addition to the list of at-home health tests that people might soon be able to do with a smartphone: Engineers at Cornell University have come up with a way for people to check their own cholesterol using an iPhone app and attachment. FDA-cleared at-home cholesterol tests have been around for awhile and are […]
Not everyone’s buying Medtronic‘s (MDT) new do. On the heels of Medtronic’s Q1 results report, Deutsche Bank analyst Greg Poole had this to say: . . . of greater interest to us was management’s commentary on the quarterly call regarding its strategy of transforming from a device provider to a global medical technology solutions partner. While […]
Stamford, Conn.-based AmbioHealth raised $525,000 in equity to close out its third angel round. The company will use the money to continue developing its remote health monitoring system and its compatible activity monitoring system, CEO and Co-Founder Kevin Jones said. The money will also go toward marketing and operational costs. Jones said the company aimed to […]
