Unlike the CES Digital Health Summit, HIMSS and SXSW, software and gadget startups aren’t easy to come by at the healthcare conference I’m attending today. At Life Science Nation’s Redefining Early Stage Investments conference in Boston, the entrepreneur wearing the sensor headband definitely stood out. That would be Tasos Smeros, founder of Multineurons, who was […]
The hype from CES 2014 has faded, but wearable tech has not lost any of its momentum. So far this year, we’ve learned that 1.5 million trackers have shipped in six months and that Apple is becoming a heart doctor. If the four sensor experts I spoke to at the end of January are right, […]
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Caremerge serves more than a hundred senior living facilities with mobile and web tools to help them communicate and coordinate care. Lively is a startup that uses sensors and algorithms to detect changes in seniors’ daily behaviors that could indicate that something’s wrong. Together, they’re hoping to give senior care providers a better way to […]
Sensors and apps designed for seniors and their caretakers may be able to detect when falls occur, but Dr. Yonatan Manor wanted to take that a step further. He assembled a team of doctors and engineers to prototype a smart shoe that they think might be able to prevent falls when they’re about to occur. […]
@medcitynews @thatdiabeticgrl @asweetgrace – 1st impression Thumbs Up! My eye dr has been talking about this tech. 4 a while. Very exciting! — Diabetes Project (@diabetesproject) January 17, 2014 If anyone can do it, Google can – right? Not everyone is so convinced when it comes to the contact lenses Google X just announced […]
Like enterprise health IT, the consumer health tech world is facing a bit of an interoperability crisis of its own. Mobile health apps and self-tracking devices – thought of by many as key tools for keeping people healthy and engaged in a post-reform healthcare system – have so far become staples in the lives of […]
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
A new assistive technology under development could someday offer people living with paralysis an interesting trade-off — to get their tongue pierced in exchange for having a better way to control their wheelchairs. Georgia Tech professor Maysam Ghovanloo founded a startup that’s working with the university to test a tongue-drive wheelchair. It works like this: […]
Are you taking your meds or are they rattling around in your purse? This is the question that Gema Touch wants to answer with a new medication tracking system. Joanna Rogerson and Jon Guida have created the Gema Kit, that features stickers embedded with sensors that link to a patient reporting website. These small circles […]
Two headlines about consumer-focused health sensors a few months ago were so downright weird that I just had to click. First it was Sony filing for a patent for a “smart wig” that would collect biometrics like temperature and blood pressure from the head. Then it was Microsoft working on high-tech bra inserts to collect […]
Welcome to Thanksgiving in 2013, where Fitbits and iPhones are as likely at the Thanksgiving table as mashed potatoes and wine. I’ve just finished reading David Eggers’ The Circle and have been thinking about how much technology and quantification will continue to transform life over the next several years. So, some predictions for Thanksgiving in […]
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
With the hardware revolution well underway in health sensing, it’s time for a revolution on the software side of the equation, industry leaders say. Engineers have done some pretty amazing things on the device side — from building sensors into apparel, to eliminating the need for a chest band or electrodes to monitor heart rate, […]
An all-in-one health analyzer that weighs less than five pounds, can diagnose 15 health conditions and records vital health metrics like blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature without any pokes or pinches — sounds like science fiction, right? Nope. More than than 300 teams applied to be part of the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, […]
The compelling idea behind digital health isn’t just to deliver health data to patients and doctors. It’s to turn that data into a narrative that reveals some kind of story about a person’s health. That’s what Dr. Leslie Saxon and her team are trying to achieve at the Center for Body Computing at the University […]
Technology that was initially meant to help soldiers and unmanned vehicles navigate uncharted territory is finding new life in a high-tech navigation device for people with impaired vision. Draper Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and development lab based in Cambridge, has partnered up with researchers at Alabama-based Auburn University to design a new navigation device that […]
Every day we write about new technology that drives new trends in healthcare. Sometimes it’s easy to see how cancer treatment or diabetes care will be different in five or 10 or 15 years. Other times it’s harder to see what the future of healthcare will look like. The picture is still fuzzy even if […]