Author Archives: Tiffany Chao

This Smartphone-Connected Device Will One Day Quickly Detect Your STDs

Biomeme has created a mobile version of a device that checks for diseases. The co-founder is planning to sell this device for just as much as an electric razor! Full Article: http://goo.gl/cv62dD

This Smartphone-Connected Device Will One Day Quickly Detect Your STDs

Biomeme has created a mobile version of a device that checks for diseases. The co-founder is planning to sell this device for just as much as an electric razor! Full Article: http://goo.gl/cv62dD

Handheld device offers high-tech medical testing for developing countries

A device that can monitor diabetes, detect malaria, and analyze drinking water and send this info to distant physicians!  Full Article: http://goo.gl/6q6C5i

Handheld device offers high-tech medical testing for developing countries

A device that can monitor diabetes, detect malaria, and analyze drinking water and send this info to distant physicians!  Full Article: http://goo.gl/6q6C5i

Google unveils Google Fit, a fitness platform for developers

Googlefit- digital health app to track people’s fitness goals. Google has had a series of unsuccessful digital health projects. Will this one be successful? Full Article: http://goo.gl/NJs1DP

Google unveils Google Fit, a fitness platform for developers

Googlefit- digital health app to track people’s fitness goals. Google has had a series of unsuccessful digital health projects. Will this one be successful? Full Article: http://goo.gl/NJs1DP

3D Printers Could Regenerate Injured Soldiers

Technology is becoming more involved in not only medicine but also in war! 3-D printing can be used to print out skin cells and precise scaffolds to be used in regenerative surgery.   Full Article: http://goo.gl/BMx5gF

3D Printers Could Regenerate Injured Soldiers

Technology is becoming more involved in not only medicine but also in war! 3-D printing can be used to print out skin cells and precise scaffolds to be used in regenerative surgery.   Full Article: http://goo.gl/BMx5gF

Hospitals Are Using Credit Card Data To Predict People’s Health

Some hospitals are looking into patients’ spending habits by looking into what they buy and where they’re buying it to predict when a patients’ in trouble! Is it helpful or is it too invasive? Full Article: http://goo.gl/5E3AJI

Hospitals Are Using Credit Card Data To Predict People’s Health

Some hospitals are looking into patients’ spending habits by looking into what they buy and where they’re buying it to predict when a patients’ in trouble! Is it helpful or is it too invasive? Full Article: http://goo.gl/5E3AJI

Verizon launches mobile virtual visits for physician groups, retail clinics

Mobile virtual visits provide real time remote  care to patients! It’s not wifi based, it is mobile based, so you can have a virtual visit anywhere! Full Article: http://goo.gl/A9khjV

Verizon launches mobile virtual visits for physician groups, retail clinics

Mobile virtual visits provide real time remote  care to patients! It’s not wifi based, it is mobile based, so you can have a virtual visit anywhere! Full Article: http://goo.gl/A9khjV

Using Google Glass to Help the Deaf: Signglasses

Signglasses, a head mounted piece, will include assistance for not only the blind, but the deaf. For example: an app that will automatically look up the definition of a word when you point to it! Full article: http://goo.gl/61JjF0

Using Google Glass to Help the Deaf: Signglasses

Signglasses, a head mounted piece, will include assistance for not only the blind, but the deaf. For example: an app that will automatically look up the definition of a word when you point to it! Full article: http://goo.gl/61JjF0

This purple, talking box can save you from an accidental prescription overdose

Kaleo, a pharmaceutical company, creates a device that has proven to reduce the chances of prescription overdose by verbally telling users how to use it properly! Full Article: http://goo.gl/2coEkl

This purple, talking box can save you from an accidental prescription overdose

Kaleo, a pharmaceutical company, creates a device that has proven to reduce the chances of prescription overdose by verbally telling users how to use it properly! Full Article: http://goo.gl/2coEkl

Roy’s cancer is first to be removed by Royal London using Google Glass

Possibly a powerful way to educate future surgical students: Google glass provided 13,000 surgical students around the world of Roy’s operation by a surgeon’s-eye view of the procedure from beginning to end! Full Article: http://goo.gl/XhBrDL  

Roy’s cancer is first to be removed by Royal London using Google Glass

Possibly a powerful way to educate future surgical students: Google glass provided 13,000 surgical students around the world of Roy’s operation by a surgeon’s-eye view of the procedure from beginning to end! Full Article: http://goo.gl/XhBrDL  

Life-Saving App Knows How Much Blood You Lost Just Looking At a Sponge

FDA approved new app on iPad helps doctors and surgeon gauge how much blood a patient has lost during operation! Currently, health professionals use an “estimated guess.” Full article: http://goo.gl/yP0R5s

Life-Saving App Knows How Much Blood You Lost Just Looking At a Sponge

FDA approved new app on iPad helps doctors and surgeon gauge how much blood a patient has lost during operation! Currently, health professionals use an “estimated guess.” Full article: http://goo.gl/yP0R5s

Bio-Printing Technology May Bring New Organ That Generates Electricity Inside The Body

3-D printing can be a possible solution to the endless transplant waiting lists! “Bio-printing” can replace human organs. Full Article: http://goo.gl/bXNqM2

Bio-Printing Technology May Bring New Organ That Generates Electricity Inside The Body

3-D printing can be a possible solution to the endless transplant waiting lists! “Bio-printing” can replace human organs. Full Article: http://goo.gl/bXNqM2

Samsung Introduces A Wearable Health Tracker That Geeks and Insurance Companies Will Love

Samsung is creating an open platform for health-tracking apps and a 50 million fund for entrepreneurs to work on solutions. Simband is a prototype device to show the platform’s purpose. Full article: http://goo.gl/K3yQSa

Samsung Introduces A Wearable Health Tracker That Geeks and Insurance Companies Will Love

Samsung is creating an open platform for health-tracking apps and a 50 million fund for entrepreneurs to work on solutions. Simband is a prototype device to show the platform’s purpose. Full article: http://goo.gl/K3yQSa

Cigna, Samsung launch smartphone health coaching app

Cigna and Samsung partner to design an app on the Samsung Galaxy 5 to help customers improve their health in their daily lives. They are looking for more partnerships to deliver health improvement. Full article: http://goo.gl/UYlFTa

Cigna, Samsung launch smartphone health coaching app

Cigna and Samsung partner to design an app on the Samsung Galaxy 5 to help customers improve their health in their daily lives. They are looking for more partnerships to deliver health improvement. Full article: http://goo.gl/UYlFTa

Novartis, Tictrac partner for multiple sclerosis health tracking

TicTrac is a health tracking platform which launched with Novartis an awareness campaign for multiple sclerosis! Their purpose is to continue developing technology to empower people to take care of their health and well being. Full article: http://goo.gl/s4uiii

Novartis, Tictrac partner for multiple sclerosis health tracking

TicTrac is a health tracking platform which launched with Novartis an awareness campaign for multiple sclerosis! Their purpose is to continue developing technology to empower people to take care of their health and well being. Full article: http://goo.gl/s4uiii

Exclusive: Medtronic to acquire Corventis for at least $150M

Corventis, a medical sensor company, has developed many FDA approved for its medical products. Medtronic seeks to buy it for a great price! Full article: http://goo.gl/aGWcxQ

Exclusive: Medtronic to acquire Corventis for at least $150M

Corventis, a medical sensor company, has developed many FDA approved for its medical products. Medtronic seeks to buy it for a great price! Full article: http://goo.gl/aGWcxQ

Researchers develop augmented reality app, simulate injuries to instruct medical students

Something a textbook can’t offer for med students..An app that simulates injuries and health conditions using augmented reality for medical students. Full Article: http://goo.gl/2cuv6u

Researchers develop augmented reality app, simulate injuries to instruct medical students

Something a textbook can’t offer for med students..An app that simulates injuries and health conditions using augmented reality for medical students. Full Article: http://goo.gl/2cuv6u