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Oral cancers in developing countries can be a major public health issue if left unchecked.
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I’m obviously a really big fan of the Mobile Augmented Reality opportunities in healthcare but this excellent Google EyeWear Project video really is great for helping generate ideas on the mo...
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Smartphones may some day help people take better control of their health by tracking it with increasing precision and convenience.
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Smartphones and tablets are transforming healthcare by shifting control to patients, but the evolution is not without its challenges.
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Several initiatives have been taken to empower and encourage teens to make healthy choices. New approaches appear inevitable in a world where Internet, social media, and smartphones play a major part in the everyday lives of both teens and adults, and even childre
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Quantify what you want to change about yourself + motivational hacks = personal change success.
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Patricia Flatley Brennan, Ph.D., R.N., Project HealthDesign National Program Director In June, as soon as Google mentioned its plan to discontinue the Google Health personal health record (PHR) system, speculators began wondering whether Microsoft...
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More importantly for academics, it is also the first surgical robot to use open-source software. Its Linux-based operating system allows anyone to modify and improve the original code, creating a way for researchers to experiment and collaborate.
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Introducing the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE. Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That’s the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. The end result: Radical innovation in healthcare that will give individuals far greater choices in when, where, and how they receive care.
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The Tricorder will of course wirelessly link in real-time to information about your history and body’s ‘dashboard’ maintained in the Cloud. This panoply of data will be subjected to complex metadata analytics to yield near instant opinions or advice, and when relevant, specific diagnoses.
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"Technology is great and people generally enjoy using it, but the impact is frequently not long-lasting unless fundamental behaviour change occurs"
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People will soon be able to check their blood oxygen level at home with Tinke, a device that helps users take charge of their health.
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Countries have struggled to implement a single health record despite the compelling advantages of doing so.
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM have announced an agreement to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon IBM...
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This video has been circulating in many of my social media networks in the past couple of days. It shows how glasses could include augmented reality and Google’s online services mashed up: Im...
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We are in a whole new world of platforms, a post-PC era, which I’d more aptly describe as the always/everywhere era, finally, and that means a whole new set of opportunities.
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It is important to keep in mind that, like robotics, a physician’s efficacy only increases the more he or she understands and utilizes the technology.
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The best of self-tracking software, gadgets, and apps can make illnesses more manageable, reveal symptoms and signs that would otherwise go unnoticed, and make vital goals and benchmarks more accessible.
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Technology has revolutionized nursing education. Vast amounts of information no longer need to be memorized.
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Proponents say the marriage of health IT and individualized therapy will revolutionize health care. The jury is still out.
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Technology is in the process of bringing change to every piece of the health industry -- wellness, fitness, healthcare, medicine -- you name it.
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Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Preparing for Precision Medicine...
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Patient from Hell Dick Vinegar asks whether any progress was made on electronic records in 2011 and what we can expect in 2012...
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What will the future of medicine bring? Tiny body monitors, large patient databases and the end of illness, says David B. Agus.
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