Is there any hope for wearables beyond just cool arm candy? Although not FDA-approved (and laden with caveats), activity trackers may still find legs if stories like these continue. For one New Jersey man, wearing a fitness tracker paid off in a big way: Doctors in the emergency room used the gadget to help determine the best way to treat his heart problem. Source: Fitbit Helps Doctors in Man’s ER Visit
Doctors aren’t used to discussing financial barriers to care, and many think it’s inappropriate to bring up money at all during conversations with patients. Source: Patients Miss Out On Savings When Doctors Fail To Talk About Costs : Shots – Health News : NPR
Ranya Habash, MD, ophthalmologist and CMO of Everbridge, says the most innovative mHealth technology should fly under the radar (and that won’t include robots). Source: Make it invisible and intuitive | mHealthNews
Major announcements by Samsung, Medtronic and Glooko highlight the significant strides being made by mHealth in chronic care management. Source: mHealthNews
By Killian Bell | May 31, 2015 Source: Apple Watch heart rate monitoring ‘bug’ is a feature, Apple says
Boosting a person’s smarts through drugs or electrical or magnetic stimulation of the brain is becoming increasingly widespread. Now, bioethicists weigh in, saying that while such cognitive enhancement is neither bad nor good, it deserves more research. Source: Are Smart Pills & Brain Zapping Risky? Bioethicists Weigh In
via the nextweb.com You could soon be taking a robot pill that delivers drugs with sugar needles Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has announced a collaboration with US-based biotech startup Rani Therapeutics to create a “robotic pill” that can deliver complex drugs which would usually be given with injections. The capsule is taken like…(more)
Pepper, the new robot from SoftBank, sees your face, hears your voice and knows if you’re happy, sad or just not that into him. Source: SoftBank’s New Robot Knows Exactly How You Feel. (That’s Creepy.) Related Source: SoftBank’s New Robot Knows Exactly How You Feel
Nearly 1,000 hospitals in the U.S. and abroad have installed InTouch telemedicine devices, including about 50 RP-VITA robots launched in May, according to company officials. The company rents out the RP-VITA for $5,000 per month. When a doctor is needed at a remote hospital location, he can log into the RP-VITA on-site by using a computer, laptop or iPad. The robot has an auto-drive function that allows it to navigate its way to the patient’s room, using sensors to avoid bumping into things or people. Once inside the hospital room,…read more
IBM’s Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors IBM’s Watson — the language-fluent computer that beat the best human champions at a game of the US TV show Jeopardy! — is being turned into a tool for medical diagnosis. Its ability to absorb and analyze vast quantities of data is better than that of human doctors claims IBM, and its deployment through the cloud could also reduce healthcare costs.
