The past decade was about the rise of digital health technology and patient empowerment. The next decade will be about artificial intelligence, the use of health sensors and the so-called Internet of Healthy Things and how it could improve millions of lives.
The health tracking market is booming. What with smart bracelets, smart beds and smart chest straps, the tracking industry has penetrated the lives of old and young from the time they wake up in the morning to the time they hit the bed at night (and beyond). It’s no wonder that user penetration is projected to reach 25% of the adult population by 2022 in the US alone and that these devices are being adopted by over 30% of individuals across all age groups.
The digital health trends to watch in 2020: What global trends are shaping the year ahead and are expected to have the biggest impact on healthcare? Read our predictions about national digital health strategies, 5G, Amazon's and Google's march into healthcare and more.
Portable and innovative diagnostic tools will shepherd us into a new era.
Today's general practitioners should all be equipped with digital health technologies to work efficiently, and to ultimately make their patients the points-of-care.
Find out what's needed to acquire these tools, the reasons behind physicians' reluctance towards innovation, and ways toward real 21st-century care.
Amazon employees and their families living in Seattle will now have access to tech-enabled Amazon Care, CNBC first reported. This comes roughly five months after the news emerged that the company was planning this rollout.
If you’ve been following me on social media, you might have noticed some posts with the hashtag #TMFchessjourney. These document my ongoing mission to practice chess at a professional level, what I’ve learnt from it and how it helps me grow as a person. Recently, I’ve crossed the 1000 hour bar of chess time and it has been a truly humbling experience.
An Oklahoma teen athlete, Skylar Joslin, has credited his Apple Watch for saving his life after the device notified him of his abnormally rapid heart rate.
The boy received an alert on his two-week old Apple Watch stating he had a high heart rate of 190 beats per minute (bpm), despite being seated in class. He immediately texted a screenshot of the alert to his mother, Liz Joslin, AppleInsider reported.
Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known antibiotics. It also cleared infections in two different mouse models.
