Telehealth Chair Lets You Take Your Vitals While You Relax
Sharp has developed a Health Support Chair to let the user relax while it takes a number of their vital signs quickly and easily. The chair itself is a redesign…
‘Contact-Free’ Sensors May Hold the Key to Effective Patient Monitoring
Officials at Newton-Wellesley Hospital are turning their general care beds into mobile sensors capable or gathering biometric data and alerting staff to potential falls and other health emergencies. Officials at…
Nanomedicine – A Key Component to the Future of Medicine [infographic]
Nanotechnology is making fast advances in medicine. I have written about it before here and in "The Future of Medicine - Megatrends in Healthcare." A nanometer is one billionth of…
BYOD, Telehealth and a Value Proposition
On August 1st, I was an attendee at a high levelHealth Information Technology (HIT) meeting in Washington DC, as an invited guest of the National eHealth Collaborative. The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC)…
What Healthcare (And Obamacare) Can Learn From A Hardware Store
(John Nosta writes for Forbes.com) (John Nosta writes for Forbes.com)Customer service. Everyone talks about it and many claim to deliver it. However, the perception of the customer is the only…
Why Twitter is Leading the Way in Pharma Social Media
In the very noisy world of social media, where Facebook and LinkedIn are slugging it out in the marketing ring to get big corporates on board, one channel is quietly…
Making Health Addictive
I first posed the question, “Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?” on August 20th. Since then I’ve done more thinking and I’m warming to the concept. I first posed the…
How to Shop for a Quality-Based Health Plan [video interview]
HealthGrades is a free online resource for finding and reviewing physicians and hospitals. They have just released a report entitled 2014 Report to the Nation, which is "designed to arm Americans…
Exergaming: Breaking Down the Walls of Social Isolation While Improving Health
If you think video games are just for kids, tweens and teens, you’d be terribly wrong. That’s how I started a blog post last April examining how senior citizens were improving…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Gene-RADAR Can Test for Viruses in Remote Locations
Nanobiosym is a company that uses physics and medicine to fight disease. Dr. Anita Goel, a physicist and a physician, brought her two areas of expertise together to develop Nanobiosym's…
