In a brave new dating world, where tens of millions of people go online to meet a potential mate – or just hook-up – much of the get-to-know-you conversation now begins online. That’s precisely where public health officials would like to see one particular potentially awkward but all-important topic discussed. ... Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration has released guidance on low-risk devices intended to promote general wellness, including mobile health and fitness apps. Under the final guidance, which contains “non-binding” recommendations for the industry, the FDA indicated that it “does not intend to actively regulate low-risk technologies that are intended only ... Read More »
Mobile technology Information technology has finally achieved the latest in addressing physicians’ shortage of time—at a California testbed, it will enable doctors to be in two places at once. Using technology developed at the USC Institute of Creative Technologies, the university’s Center for Body Computing’s Virtual Care Clinic program will ... Read More »
Were digital health innovators best described as a clever Trojan Horse this quarter, or as slimy snake oil salesmen? It really depends on who you ask. At the beginning of the quarter, HHS CTO Susannah Fox said that technology would be a Trojan Horse for culture change in healthcare. She ... Read More »
27 July 2016 – “Wash my hands before eating and nursing the baby, wash my hands after relieving myself, use Aquatabs to purify the water…” and so, Sherline Deus lists the steps she must take to protect herself and her children from cholera in the town of Grand Bois, located ... Read More »
Dementia is one of the most feared conditions of aging. The CDC estimates that over 14 million Americans will be affected by 2050. The cause is likely multifactorial and although we know much about the pathologic findings seen on imaging and autopsy, the ability to prevent this disease or treat ... Read More »
Anyone who works in health care is used to researching symptoms, drug interactions and other need-to-know stats to keep patients safe and manage their care. Until recently, doctors, nurses and other health care workers would have to wait until they got to a desktop terminal to find the answers they ... Read More »
Microsoft’s first big feature update for Windows 10, the Anniversary Update, is out today. With it comes a smarter Cortana, better multiple desktop tools, and tweaks that fix annoyances we’ve hated since Windows 10 launched. Cortana Is Way Smarter, and Can Talk to Android and Windows Phone Cortana reminds me ... Read More »
With the smartphone-based reality game Pokemon Go gaining popularity, cyber security sleuths have issued an alert against some fake and malicious apps prowling in the Indian web space which can seriously compromise an individual’s phone. “It has been observed that fake Pokemon Go malicious apps are available on third party ... Read More »
We carry computers in our pockets. Tiny little computers that we occasionally hold up to our ears to hear other people. Mostly we use them as portable gaming, non-verbal communication and entertainment devices. Often we wax poetic that our phones could be our only computer, if only there was a ... Read More »
