Atlanta App iAccess Helps Users Rate and Review Venues’ Accessibility
/When Brandon Winfield was a teen in California, he and his friends were obsessed with motocross racing—to the point that one of Winfield’s first words was motorcycle.
Read MoreBrain-controlled exoskeleton lets paralyzed man walk again
/It’s one giant robotic step for mankind.
Read MoreGoogle Maps now helps visually impaired people cross the street and stay on course
/Using voice directions.
Read More‘It’s my escape.’ How video games help people cope with disabilities.
/When Jackson Reece lost his arms and legs to sepsis after already being paralyzed, he thought his life was over. It was video games that brought him back.
Read MoreFaster, slower: How the West Coast and East Coast look at digital health
/Panelists at MassBio's Digital Health Impact event yesterday talk the pros and cons of the West Coast's tech culture and the East Coast's clinical tradition.
Google collects face data now. Here's what it means and how to opt out
/The new Face Match technology isn't everywhere yet, but it's always looking. Find out what's happening with your face data and what you can do to stop it.
Growth in IoT devices is fueling demand for machine learning technology
/One of the first things Matt Oberdorfer tells you about Embassy of Things, his IIoT startup, is that it’s not focused on analytics.
Read MoreAre Digital Smart Health Communities the Future of Community Care?
/Smart health communities are healthcare consumers' response to an increasingly community-based and digital medical industry.
Read MoreThe Pentagon wants smartphones to track how you strut
/The Pentagon is testing technology that will let a smartphone identify you by the way you walk, as well as how you hold the device and swipe across the screen.
Read MoreSmartphone algorithm combined with paper funnel can detect ear infection
/Researchers at the University of Washington have created a new app that was able to detect fluid in the middle ear in pediatric patients.
Read MoreAs health tech innovation moves forward, who is being left out?
/The digital health industry has much work to do when it comes to developing technologies for underserved populations, including people of color, the LGBTQ community and women.
Read More$4.3M HIPAA fine a stark reminder to secure mobile devices
/HIPAA compliance is back in the headlines, and in a big way.
Read MoreJohns Hopkins researchers call for digital health scorecard
/With the rapid growth of digital health solutions, there is a serious need for an objective, transparent and standards-based framework to evaluate these healthcare products.
Read More8 ways smartphones are being used as medical devices
/Smartphones are quickly gaining the capabilities to make patients’ homes an extension of physicians’ offices, facilitating access to timely medical care. Technological advancements in the phones are enabling them to take higher-resolution photos and deliver better sound quality, suggests Christy Marks-Davis, senior director of marketing for CareCentrix, a company that works with providers and payers to support care of patients in their homes.
Read MoreNew Non-Profit Aims to Develop Digital Medicine Research, Standards
/The Boston-based Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) has attracted a strong array of telehealth and mHealth executives as it moves to define digital medicine and create evidence-based standards.
Read MoreNew Study Finds Link Between mHealth Wearables, Medication Adherence
/Researchers from Evidation Health report that people living with chronic conditions who regularly use mHealth wearables to track activity are better at following medication management guidelines.
Google releases Lookout app that identifies objects for the visually impaired
/Announced last year, it’s available on Pixel devices in the US this week.
Read MorePatients Ready to Embrace AI, Patient Engagement Technologies
/Forty-two percent of patients said they are comfortable with AI being a part of their docs' patient engagement technologies toolkit.
Beyond Wellness For the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018
/Results from Rock Health’s fourth national consumer survey (2018 data) on digital health adoption and sentiments. Adoption continues to rise while consumers leverage digital health tools to address concrete health needs.
Read MoreRehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health: Moving the Field Forward (Executive Summary)
/Approximately 53 million Americans live with a disability. For decades, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been conducting and supporting research to discover new ways to minimize disability and enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities. After the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, the NIH established the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research with the goal of developing and implementing a rehabilitation research agenda. Currently, a total of 17 institutes and centers at NIH invest more than $500 million per year in rehabilitation research. Recently, the director of NIH, Dr Francis Collins, appointed a Blue Ribbon Panel to evaluate the status of rehabilitation research across institutes and centers. As a follow-up to the work of that panel, NIH recently organized a conference under the title “Rehabilitation Research at NIH: Moving the Field Forward.” This report is a summary of the discussions and proposals that will help guide rehabilitation research at NIH in the near future.
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