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Slow pace of healthcare innovations. Why?

Imagine: suddenly you feel dizzy. You simply press the button of your smart band, watch, necklace, etc. Your ECG, glucose level or blood pressure will be immediately checked, and Artificial Intelligence...

Category: Artificial Intelligence in Health, Biosig Instruments, consumer healthcare technology, digital health transformation, healthcare innovations, Niturit, patient engagement, Uncategorized, wearable devices, wearable garments Tags: digital health is not reaching consumers, digital health transformation is going slow, digital transformation in healthcare is going slow, innovations in healthcare are not reaching consumers, innovations in healthcare are slow, slow pace of healthcare innovations

Will wearables change consumers’ behavior?

The forecast for wearables is still bright. Studies show that one in six (15%) consumers in the United States use smartwatches or fitness bands such as Fitbit, Jawbone, Nike, Apple Watch...

Category: behaviour change, consumers' behaviour, ECG monitoring, ECG sensors, Medical sensors, sensors, wearable devices, wearable garments, wearable glucose montitoring, wearable patches for cardiology, wearable sensros for cardiology Tags: can wearables change consumers' behavior?, reliability and vaidity of wearable devices, wearable devices and consumers' behaviour, wearable devices and data accuracy, wearable devices and real health issues

Wearable Technology Conference: Entering a Maturity Phase? Munich 7- 8 February 2017

The annual international conference on Wearable Technologies did not impress by innovative discoveries, but rather showed the meaningful utilization of the existing ones. Many of the demonstrated products such as smart...

Category: biosensors, ECG monitoring, electronic skin, flexible patches, graphene biosensor chip, Health sensors, mHealth, Mobile Health, printed electronics, sensors, Smart Cap, wearable devices, wearable garments, wearable patches for cardiology, wearable sensros for cardiology, Wearable Technology Conference Munich 2017 Tags: AiQ smart clothing, Bonbouton, Neopenda, newborns monitoring with wearable sensors, wearable sensors, Wearable Technology Conference Munich 2017

Why am I dissatisfied with health devices and applications?

After 2 months of initial excitement with my smart band and related apps, I have stopped wearing the device after. Seems I am not alone in my frustrations: a new study...

Category: health applications for consumers, medical applications, Medical sensors, mHealth applications, Mobile Applications, Mobile Apps, mobile health applications, patient engagement, personal health, sensors, wearable devices Tags: consumer dissatisfaction with health applications, health data accuracy, inaccuracy of health applications, inaccuracy of medical devices, physicians do not trust health applications, wearable devices

Three ways digital technology can transform the pharmaceutical industry

Considering the amount of medications each of us is swallowing during the lifecycle, one would assume that the pharma industry is tremendously flourishing. Indeed, the total volume of the pharmaceutical market...

Category: American Society of Consultant Pharmacies, biosensors, clinical trials, diagnostic mistakes, doctros screwed up, graphene biosensor chip, HealthspecPGT, Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor pill, Medical Errors, Medical sensors, medication adherence, medication comliance, medication nonadherence, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, nanosensors, Navigenics, non adherence to medications, nonadherence, personalized medication trackers, pharmaceutical industry, ProPublica, Proteus smart pill, SecInCloud, Skype for Business, smart pills, surgical errors, The National Council of Patient Information and Education, University of Chicago Medicine, Virginia Tech, wearable devices, Wu Feng Tags: adherence to medications, advanced analytics and clinical trials, clinical trials improvement, cloud computing and clinical trials, development of biosensors and smart pills, diagnostic errors, diagnostic mistakes, digitalizatoin of pharmaceutical industry, genomic tests, graphene biosensor chip, HQ Inc's CorTemp Ingestible Temperature Sensor pill, medical errors, Medical sensors, medication based on genomic profile, medication nonadherence, medication treatment, nanotubes to analyze biochemical process, Personal Genome Analysis Toolkit, pharmaceutical industry transformation, pharmagenomics, pharnaceutical industry challenges, sensors to analyze reaction on medications, Sequencing in the Cloud, surgical errors, University of Chicago Medicine smart pill, wearable devices

Top healthcare innovations for consumers

End of the year is the time to contemplate on significant achievements of the past. Cleveland Clinic is releasing the list of top medical innovations 2015 naming telestroke units as number...

Category: applications for pharmagenomics, breathanalyzers, direct to consumer genetic tests, ECG sensors, healthcare innovations, Na nose, nano sensors, nanosensors, non - invasive diagnostics, noninvasive diagnostics, personalized medication trackers, pharmagenomics, Uncategorized, wearable devices, wearable garments, wearable glucose montitoring Tags: breathanalyzers for non-invasive diagnostics, cardio sensors, ECG sensors, innovations in healthcare, medical sensors for preventive care, noninvasive diagnostics, pharmagenomics, QardioCore, sensors for preventive care, wearable devices for continuous monitoring, wearable patches

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