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Ingestible sensor promises adherence insight

The FDA has given new meaning to the term inside scoop, with the approval of an ingestible medical sensor earlier this month from Proteus Biomedical. While the tool's medication-tracking capability...

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To Find Your Heart Rate, Stare At This App

Your iPhone’s health monitoring capabilities just got a little more advanced. Cardiio, an app built by scientists from MIT, can quickly check your heart rate. All you have to do is stare at the...

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Proteus puts body-monitoring chips into pills

Health care is moving beyond science fiction, and Proteus Digital Health Inc. is leading the fantastic voyage.The Redwood City company won Food and Drug Administration approval in July for an...

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Tomorrow’s people and the body of the future

A century ago, the design of 21st-century man was unimaginable to anyone but sci-fi writers, and even they didn’t go far enough. No one foresaw a species able to prevent pregnancy with a pill. Or able...

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Amiigo Is A Fitness Bracelet (Plus App) That Knows What Type Of Exercise...

There’s no shortage of fitness apps to track how much (or how little) you’ve been shaking your tail feather lately — such as MyFitnessPal, Endomondo and GAIN Fitness to name three we’ve written about...

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SEO Health Check: Why You're Tracking the Wrong SEO Metrics

This is the first part in a two part series of the SEO Health Check. The SEO Health Check surfaces data that give you meaningful insights into your site’s progress in SEO. The metrics that a large...

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Amputee Climbs A Chicago Tower With A Mind-Controlled Bionic Leg

Software engineer Zac Vawter, who lost his leg as the result of a motorcycle accident three years ago, will climb 103 flights of stairs at Chicago’s Willis Tower on November 4th using a bionic leg....

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This App Uses Cell Phone Data To Track How You’re Feeling

It turns out that the way you use your phone is a huge window into how you’re feeling--emotionally and physically. Ginger.io is using that data to help people track their moods, and help doctors track...

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FDA clears AliveCor heart monitor, doctors can pre-order

The FDA has granted a 510(K) Class II clearance to San Francisco-based AliveCor’s iPhone-enabled heart monitor, which has been commonly known as the “iPhoneECG” since it first made an appearance at CES...

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Xboxification of Healthcare

Healthcare organizations are rapidly trying to reinvent themselves in light of the new rules of the game. One could argue it officially started October 1st of this year with Medicare’s readmission...

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Will mobile sensors revolutionise healthcare?

How the phone in your pocket could help power a revolution in healthcare that will allow your doctor to spot problems – and intervene – no matter where you are in the world. Dr Leslie Saxon wants to...

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Europe wants to smash 'barriers' to digital health

As the rise in mobile, connected health management services creates an ehealth boom in the US, Europe launches a strategy to upgrade health systems it concedes are stuck in the 20th century.See it on...

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Advancing the Future of Healthcare: frog’s Connected Care Solution

As technology disrupts established healthcare systems and the traditional patient-provider dynamic, frog introduces a prototype Connected Care Solution (CCS) that seamlessly connects doctors and...

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The Future of Medicine Is Now

From cancer treatments to new devices to gene therapy, a look at six medical innovations that are poised to transform the way we fight disease.See it on Scoop.it, via Health Innovation

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Game-changers in health and medicine, circa 2012 (TEDMED Blog)

From a starter map of our body’s microbes, to mobile apps that monitor critical health measures,  2012 was a banner year for  innovation in health and medicine — even if some breakthroughs and events...

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2013: The Year of Digital Health - Forbes

It seems that the stars are aligned. These glimmers of facts, figures, innovation and needs are converging on the year 2013. And the result promises to be an inflection point for digital health. The...

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6 Innovative Digital Health Products That Dominated CES 2013

A recap of the 6 innovative digital health products that dominated CES 2013 held in conjunction with the Digital Health Summit held in Las Vegas last week.See it on Scoop.it, via Health Innovation

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How digital health tools help kids form better habits

The Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS is working on a new texting initiative, based on the successful public health texting initiative Text4Baby, called TXT4Tots. The department is...

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IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare

IBM’s Watson, the Jeopardy!-playing supercomputer that scored one for Team Robot Overlord two years ago, just put out its shingle as a doctor or, more specifically, as a combination lung cancer...

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10 sensor innovations driving the digital health revolution

This year IBM dedicated its Five in Five series (an annual list of five technologies that are likely to advance dramatically) solely to sensors. Digital sensors of the touch, sight,hearing, taste and...

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Era of mobile health tracking definitively arrives, Samsung Galaxy S4 &...

When a company that had over $180 billion in net revenue (more than Apple) for 2012 decides to seriously get into mobile health devices, it's safe to say the age of mobile tracking has definitely...

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SXSW: Will collecting data on your body make you healthier?

Not familiar with the "Quantified Self?" It's latest trend in obsessively tracking every possible health measure, in real time, that emerged as a major theme at South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive...

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Technology improves health care in remote areas - TVNZ

Technology improves health care in remote areas TVNZ New iPad health technology is helping overcome the tyranny of distance in one of New Zealand's most remote provinces.See it on Scoop.it, via Health...

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Blood-test device 'goes under skin'

Scientists say they have developed a tiny blood-testing device that sits under the skin and gives instant results via a mobile phone.See it on Scoop.it, via Health Innovation

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Five mobile health projects on Indiegogo

Crowdfunding platforms can be the last refuge of a desperate entrepreneur or the go-to market strategy for an appealing consumer product. When a product does well, it does really well, smashing records...

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Could Video Games Be Used To Improve Youth Health?

A new study led by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) suggests that certain games could provide an attractive energy-burning P.E....

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Rise of the Digital Doctor

With the rise of Social Media, we are seeing more and more professionals actively using different paltforms to connect and share. This infographic higSee it on Scoop.it, via Health Innovation

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Building a Better App | healthcare technology

Consumer health IT can dramatically impact patient care by facilitating such vital functions as medication management, remote patient monitoring, and tighter communication between patients and their...

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Wearable Computing Devices will exceed 485 Million Annual Shipments by 2018

Wearable computing devices are projected to explode in popularity over the next year and with a wave of new gadgets set to hit the consumer market, could soon become the norm for most people within...

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Apple is suddenly really interested in health tech

Apple is suddenly really interested in health techAnd the fitness-tracking wristband seems to be inspiring how the company is thinking about its own wearable device: it's begun hiring several experts...

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