I don’t know many business people who look forward to conference expos. Seemingly unchanged in generations, these generally are not at the cutting edge of innovation. Cavernous yet stuffy neon-lit halls contain a multitude of seemingly random exhibitors, most of which bear no obvious relevance to what you’re interested in. On the exhibitor side, those [...]
[This is a guest post by Ryan Frederick, founder and Principal of Point Forward Solutions, a strategic consulting and financial advisory firm dedicated to Seniors Housing & Care and related Health Care Services industries. Prior to founding Point Forward Solutions, Ryan was Senior Vice President at Erickson Living. Ryan can be reached at rfrederick@pointforwardsol.com and @ryanefrederick.] This past week San Francisco [...]
[A] 2009 McKinsey survey of 3,000 people in Brazil, China, Germany, India, South Africa, and the United States found that up to one-third of respondents indicated some willingness to pay for mHealth services such as drug delivery, physician phone consultations, and remote monitoring with alerts. In the decade ahead, the ubiquitous mobile device has the potential [...]
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working on an inexpensive way to use smartphones to quickly detect early-stage cataracts, the clouding of the eye lens that is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Developed by Media Lab Camera Culture group director Ramesh Raskar and colleagues, the Catra system is made of off-the-shelf components. [...]
For Ford Motor Co., medical monitoring is the next key to a burst of car sales. About 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 every day and 26 million Americans have diabetes. Besides checking blood sugar, Ford has developed a car seat to check the drivers heart rate that could warn of an impending heart attack, and [...]
It seems that PTSD is tip of the iceberg for a number of other conditions, and a good entry point for getting people using the app to monitor themselves and flag any issues to a professional ahead of time. Just another layer of info, not necessarily the answer in itself. Somewhere between 11 percent and [...]
