The Many Benefits of Connected Medical Devices
Medical facilities such as hospitals and clinics employ numerous diagnostic devices like thermometers, blood pressure cuffs, and pacemakers. Traditionally, the patient’s test data from these devices would be written in their chart. But as more hospitals and clinics embrace digital technology like electronic medical records (EMR), opportunities are opening up for connected medical devices to disrupt […]
Soon, Doctors Will Be Able to Track Your Health – Without Any Wearables
Dina Katabi is a renowned professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT in Boston. She’s built a box in her research lab that can live in your home; it tracks physiological signals while you move: breathing, gait, sleeping, heart rate, and much more. She hopes this box will become the non-invasive standard for measuring biological […]
The FDA Approves a Contraceptive App for the First Time
Many women around the world lack access to affordable, accurate contraception. To address this, Elina and Raoul Berglund created an app called “Natural Cycles.” The app augments our perspective of fertility by tracking cycles and body temperature in women. When a woman is fertile, the couple can avoid having sex, and when a woman is out of […]
These New Edible Sensors Could Revolutionize MedTech
Can you imagine eating a capsule embedded with sensors so it can monitor your gut? Yeah, that sounds a little weird. But hear us out; here’s how it works. RMIT University in Australia led several successful trials of these capsules. These little pills are expected to revolutionize how doctors monitor, treat, and diagnose gastrointestinal diseases, […]
Omega Ophthalmics Wants to Put the Power of AR in Our Eyes
So far the hype about augmented reality has been somewhat undermined by the frivolousness of its popular applications. Existing examples of AR like Snapchat and Pokemon Go are fun and all, but it is hard for a lot of people to see how the technology that makes them possible will eventually be an integral part […]