Handheld diagnostic devices. Blood tests. Helmet sensors. Apps that evaluate everything from balance to speech patterns. They’re all efforts being put forth by companies looking to cash in on the need for more sophisticated and less subjective ways of evaluating traumatic brain injuries, which have come under the spotlight especially over the last decade. During […]
At the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Seattle last week, Liz Gannes of All Things D met Rachel Kalmar of Misfit Wearables. Kalmar is a data scientist and a one-person focus group for 21 personal trackers. Gannes asked Kalmar to identify each tracker. The list included multiple Shines, a Fitbit Flex, Jawbone up, two Basis […]
Balancing healthcare benefits and insurance costs requires research. From becoming a Difference Card member to offering wellness resources, there are many ways to improve healthcare at low cost.
App developers, researchers and quantified selfers have a new, cheap way to experiment with projects and applications that leverage data from body sensors with a kit developed in Portugal. A hardware and software kit called BITalino includes a microcontroller unit, a battery block and a few different different physiological sensor modules that can be broken […]
Electronic medical records. DNA sequencing. Big data. These technology trends are changing the way medicine is practiced today — but what’s coming next? I scoured the web, reached out to futurists and drew from past conversations with industry leaders to compile a list of the next generation of disruptive technologies that are on the brink […]
There is nothing more to say, really. Scott Adams still has a sharp eye for the real motivations of corporate America. This strip from August 16 made Jeremy Johnstone wonder about his Jawbone. H/T to Jelena Woehr and Cowgirl up for finding this great comic. [Image from dilbert.com]
Mainstream consumer health doesn’t need Apple. There are new self-tracking apps and devices being devised every day to satisfy even the most hardcore quantified selfer. The issue isn’t that there aren’t enough devices in the market; it’s that not many people are using them. That’s why Apple is well-poised to succeed if it wades into […]
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One man’s heart sensor could be another man’s fitness tracker. The possibilities are many when it comes to the Angel Sensor, a wearable device whose developers have coined it “the first open sensor for health and fitness.” It’s still in the works, but the vision is for the device to be a wristband that measures […]
Overshadowed by the $10 million Tricorder challenge is another challenge unearthing amazing sensor innovations: Nokia and XPRIZE’s $2.25 million Sensing XCHALLENGES, which encourage teams to build sensing technology to be used for identifying or diagnosing disease. “While there has been an influx of market activity around health and fitness applications, medical diagnostic and sensing […]
More than 2.5 million people get pressure ulcers every year, often from having limited mobility and being unable to change positions in a bed or chair. For hospitals, patients who develop pressure sores generally have longer lengths of stay and are more likely to be readmitted, adding to the cost of care. CMS considers pressure […]
This company has a tempting and comforting value proposition for new parents: around-the-clock baby monitoring without so much sleep deprivation. Sensible Baby, which was born out of Startup Weekend Boston just three months ago, is hoping its high-tech onesie could calm some of parents’ anxiety around sudden infant death syndrome. SIDS is the leading cause […]
Mayo Clinic has developed a new tool that could speed up the time it takes for digital health companies to validate their tech to hospitals.
One question I like to ask to stimulate conversation with people in the healthcare industry is, “What kind of technologies and tools do you think have exciting potential to change the way care is delivered?” When I posed that question to Lygeia Ricciardi, director of the Office of Consumer eHealth at the ONC, during ENGAGE, […]
Scanadu, one of the most high profile participants vying for the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE, today lifted the veil on the design of its medical scanner via an Indiegogo campaign. And in a matter of a few hours, it’s exceeded its goal of $100,000. The device, called Scout, is placed on the forehead […]
Wearable sensors are getting a lot of buzz in the consumer health world right now, but there’s a whole other world where the applications for body sensors are getting even more creative. Researchers in labs are using all kinds of technologies that consumers most likely will never see. I got a glimpse into this fascinating […]
The daily testing and monitoring responsibilities for diabetes patients has made them, and their physicians, a prime target for mobile health products and services. But research suggests that even in this population of patients, use of mobile technologies is still reserved to a small group of early adopters. Dr. David Klonoff, an endocrinologist and clinical […]
“I wouldn’t be surprised if within two to three years, they didn’t have an app that could diagnose my (heart) health better than my cardiologist can.” That was just one of the ambitious predictions that came Monday from technology enthusiast Vivek Wadhwa during a keynote presentation at the Front End of Innovation Wellness conference in […]